Grange Hotel, Brampton

The following is not to be confused with Brampton Grange, Church Brampton, Northampton, which operates as a popular wedding venue.

The Brampton Grange in Brampton, Cambridgeshire, England, is a historic building that dates back to 1773. The building was once vital to the planning and bombing of Germany as the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) 1st Bombardment Division, part of the Eighth Air Force, was based here from 1943 to 1945, during the Second World War.

The Brampton Grange closed in 2007-2008 after many years of use as a hotel, bar and restaurant. In November 2015 building work was completed and the building was converted into 11 luxury apartments and marketed by Villager Homes, Brampton.

Until the removal of the eastern wing by developers, marks could be seen on the walls from school girls carvings from their pencils.

Ridley Haim Herschell was asked by Lady Olivia Sparrow to manage her schools in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex and Brampton, Cambridgeshire. The school was at the Grange. Ridley went on to be well known in the religious community.

He was the founder of the British Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Jews (1842) and of the Evangelical Alliance (1845). It appears that his son was born in Brampton during his time here at the Grange. Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell (1837-1899), Lord Chancellor, eldest son of the Rev. Ridley Haim Herschell, by Helen Skirving, daughter of William Mowbray of Edinburgh, was born at Brampton on 2 November 1837.

His son later became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895

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