I!KAMH"1'F. 344 [Toy. mile* to the V. of Tadcaster, its post town. It includes .plrius. of Clifford, andBoston Spa. Northward of the vil. is I'.rainham Moor, across which ran the Roman ^'.reet. On this moor a battle was fought in 1 ; tthumberland was de- - : i Thomas Kokeby, and the crown !:ry IV. I moor, wlii li rably elevated, then- is :ui sive prospect over the surrounding country, threo navi- gable rivers and 10 towns, with a great number of scats and parks, Ixnng within sight. The di-tri.t oo abundance of limestone and coal. The living is, in the dioc. of York, of the val. of 300, in of the Master and Fellows of Christ Chm Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints. In addition to the parish church there are two district churches, one at Boston Spa and the other at Clifford. The livings of both are perpet. curs. the former of the val. of 180, and the latter of 65. Th- a chapel in the village. There is a small free school, with an endowment of 18 per annum, the produce of several bequests. The other parochial charities are worth about 30 a year. The principal seats are Bramham Park and Br.tmham Biggin. The former was the seat of Lord Bingley, who erected the mansion, a large and hand- some edifice, with fine gardens and well-planted grounds. The latter, once the seat of Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart. , is cow the property of Iiord Headley. BRAMHOl'K, a tiishp. in the par. of Otley, and wap. of Skyrack, in the West Riding of the co. of York, 3 miles 'to the S.E. of Otley, its post town. The Leeds and Thirsk section of the North-Eastem railway passes through it. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Kijion, of the val. of 148, in the patron, of the Vicar of Otley. There is a small endowed school, with an in- come of 9 a year. Bramhope Hall is the chief resi- dence. BHAMINGHAM, GREAT and LITTLE, hmlts. in the par. of Luton, hund. of Flitt, in the co. of Bed- ford, 4 miles to the X. of Luton. BRAMLEY, a par. in the lower div. of the hund. of Basingstoke, in the co. of Southampton, 6 miles to the N. of Basingstoke, its post town. Part of the par. is laid out in hop-grounds. The living is a vie. * in the dioc. > ter, of the val. of 385, in the patron. of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints, and has a nionu- ini ntal brass of the year lotis. BRAMLEY, a par. in the first div. of the hund. of Blackheath, in the co. of Surrey, 3 miles to the 8. of Guildford, its post town. It is intersected by the Arun and Wey canal. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Winchester, val. 160, in the patron. of the lord chancellor. The church is partly in the early English style, and is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There are some charitable endowments worth 6 per annum. Brainier House is the seat of Captain Wmdham. B&AKLEY, a chplry. in the par. and borough of Leeds, lot of Skyrack, in the Riding of the co. of York, 3 miles to the ". .>!' I/ccds, its post town. It is a station on the Leed*. and Halifax Junction railway. The chplrr. contains part of Stanningley. Hodley, and oilu-r vil- in) 12 wards of the borough of Leeds, and the inhabitants are princi] cloth trade of the district. The Leeds and Liverpool canal passes near this place, and there are some < sive and valuable quarries of plate and sandstone. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Ripon. of 239, in the patn.n. "f the Vicar of Leeds. Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have chapels and there is an endowment for edue about 30 per annum. The rain < charities is MI.1, Y. :i tnshp. in the ].ar. of 1 wap. i Tirkhill, in the West Kidii - to tli/' K. of Jtothri-i Wes- leyans have a chapel here. Bromley Grange, a pleasant residence, was formerly connected with UM IU;.Ml.i;V 1IKAH, a hmlt. in the cross, and par. i : n the wap. o Hiding of the cc miles to the I ford, in the co. of D< - to tl its post town. It is f. Exe, and is crossed ! ! and The living is a vie. iu of 210, iu the patron church is dedicate: consisting of the parish lands, are we In 1849 the Rev. George Gorham was vie. of Brampford-Speke, and the Case," in the Ecclesiastical opposition of the Bishop of Exeter to on the ground of the theological Gorham. BRAMPTON, a par. and market ward, in the co. of Cumberland, 9 n Carlisle, and 60 W. of Newcastle-*] situated in a billy country, on the ba. Irthing and Gelt, V '.-a from 1 railway, which passes at Milton. The tnshps. of Easby included in this par. Brani] antiquity, and ii conjectured by C'amdt to have been the site 01 cum, which is now usually assigned to is about 2 miles to the 8. of the wall parish is par inrient baronj lords of which had their principal Castle, now one of the scat.- The town suffered to a . of the 14th century. It was h' in the rebellion of 1715, and was Charles Stuart in 1 745. > deep rounded by well-wooded hills, and e cipal streets (the house? irregularly built), and a span improvements, however, have latel many of the houses have been It is lighted with ga, and has a go Many of the inha employ ture of ginghams and checks. The a tannery, skin-yard, and several fe A branch railway conm collieries and lime-works at 4^^ quarried in the ncigbom house, built in 1M7 >>; octagonal structure, surmou: sessions are held by the county magi nesday in the police-off, lirampton is the seat of a Poor-law U place for the eastern di% i OEM IB - ' ' "' . w.iik room, gas- w> -office, and y court is held every altern " Howard Anns," and i rony of GiL! 'Hie living is a vie.* in t church is dedicated to St. 51
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lialf a ton. 1'art chapels belonging to th" Independents, Pn Wesleyans, and Primiti -ts. Al 12 aged persons was ]>i 1 th l t*d by the Earl . endowment was n< National, Congregational, and infant schools. I is a handsome building, completed in 1847
