Bramley, Surrey
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| Area | 18.87 km2 (7.29 sq mi) |
| Population | 3,559 (Civil Parish 2011) |
| • Density | 189/km2 (490/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ0145 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GUILDFORD |
| Postcode district | GU5 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Bramley is a village and civil parish about three miles (5 km) south of Guildford in the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, south east England. Most of the parish lies in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
In its bounds is evidence of the iron age but documents record a village at the end of Anglo Saxon era of the Kingdom of England and track its expansion and division during the Middle Ages. Much of the housing was linear along the Horsham road: many such buildings have survived and the village has a substantial conservation area.
Bramley is like most villages Old English (Saxon) (meaning like Bromley, one of its earlier forms, a clearing or lea in the broom). Birtley within the parish in the south and means a clearing in the birch.
Before the Saxons arrived the wider area was lightly settled. The builders of the Iron Age fort at Hascombe probably included farmers from the Wintershall and Thorncombe Street areas of present-day Bramley, but there is no evidence for early settlement in the village area and no evidence of any Roman settlement.
The settlement appears in six large parcels in the Domesday Book as Brolege and Bronlei. These were held by the Bishop of Bayeux (William the Conqueror's half-brother). Its Domesday Assets were: 39½ hides; 3 churches, 5 mills worth £1 6s 0d, 39 ploughs, 20 acres (8.1 ha) of meadow, woodland worth 100 hogs. In 1086 its wide definition and well-cultivated, fertile area with valuable mills made Bramley by yearly income the largest and most valuable manor in Surrey. It rendered (in total per year): £83 14s 8d to its feudal overlords. The area comprised most of the western half of the Hundred of Blackheath, extending to the Sussex border and including Shalford, Wonersh, Hascombe and west Cranleigh.
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