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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BRAUGHIN, a village, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred in Herts. The village stands on the river Quin, adjacent to Ermine-street, and to the Buntingford railway, 3½ miles SE by S of Buntingford; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ware. It was a domain of the Saxon kings; was known to the Saxons as Brooking, and to the Normans as Brackinges; and was long a place of considerable importance, and a market-town. It has now a fair on Whit-Monday. Vestiges of the Roman Ad-Fines are at Campwood in its neighbourhood. The parish includes also part of the hamlet of Puckeridge. Acres, 4,300. Real property, £7,009. Pop., 1,180. Houses, 249. The property is divided among a few. The living*is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £260 Patrons, the heirs of the late Rev. W. Tower. The church contains monuments of the Brograves; and is good. There are an Independent chapel, an alms-house, and charities £28.- The subdistrict is in Bishop-Stortford district, and contains five parishes. Acres, 12,246. Pop., 2,912. Houses, 616. The hundred contains thirteen parishes. Acres, 39,669. Pop., 20,481. Houses, 4,121.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Braughing AP/CP Braughing Hundred Braughing SubD Hertfordshire AncC |
| Place names: | BRACKINGES | BRAUGHIN | BROOKING |
| Place: | Braughing |
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