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Bramley is a village and parish in Hampshire, UK. In the 2001 census it had a population of 3,348. It has a village shop, baker, estate agency, pub (The Bramley Inn) and a railway station. Also, Bramley Camp houses an Army facility where military training and manoeuvres take place.
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History
Evidence of Bramley's first inhabitants can be found in Bullsdown Camp, a prehistoric settlement, where remnants of flint-scrapers, a spear-head, a core and flint-flakes have been found. This is thought[by whom?] to be a late Celtic "triple-walled dun". This fortification can still be seen today, situated to the east of the village south of the Bramley to Sherfield road..
The Romans occupied Calleva Atrebatum and built a walled city known today as Silchester, and Bramley is on the Chichester to Silchester Way Roman road and has remains of a Romano-British villa nearby.
The Church of St James stands at the west of the village and originally dates from 1160, however features many historical alterations and additions up to the 20th Century. It is a Grade I listed building. The famous physicist Lise Meitner is buried in the burial ground next to the church.
The railway line between Reading and Basingstoke was built through the village in 1848. However, the village had to wait another 47 years until on 1 May 1895 a station in the village opened, at the insistence of the Duke of Wellington (a relative of the Wellington who fought and defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815) a prominent landowner in the area. During 1935 parts of the film 'The Last Journey' were shot[citation needed] on the railway within the village.
Publications
The village is served by three village magazines: the original parish magazine edited by the Reverend Robert Toogood and others, the Bramley 265 and the View Magazine. The Bramley 265 has been running for two years and was edited by Emma Cunningham until December 2009. As of 2010 it will be edited by Scott Millard. The View Magazine is run by two sixteen-year-old boys; George Blower and Oliver Yorke. Set up in 2008 the magazine has grown to have the largest distribution in the area, now serving 4000 homes. The View was nominated for two business awards in November 2009 at the regional Inspire 09 awards (Basingstoke and North Hampshire) for New Business of the Year & Micro Business of the Year.[citation needed]
Location
Bramley is located ten miles south of the large town of Reading, and five miles north of Basingstoke. The village is the site of Bramley (Hants) railway station, on the line between Reading and Basingstoke.
Nearby towns and cities: Basingstoke, Reading, Tadley
Nearby villages: Mortimer, Silchester, Sherfield on Loddon, Little London
Local government
Bramley is a civil parish with an elected Parish Council. Bramley falls within the area of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and of Hampshire County Council and all three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.
At Borough level, Bramley is represented by Cllrs. Ranil Jayawardena and Rhydian Vaughan who, together, represent the Bramley and Sherfield Ward.
At County level, Bramley is represented by Cllr. Keith Chapman who represents the Calleva and Kingsclere Division.
Army training area
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- For more details, see Bramley Camp
Bramley Camp is a military training area south of the village, used mainly[citation needed] by 21 SAS (reserves) and the Berkshire Army Cadet Force and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Army Cadet Force. Due to civilian houses close to the boundaries of the training area there are time limits for specific activities such as live firing. The camp has also been used to shoot parts of the Channel 4 television series Scrapheap Challenge, and the ITV1 series Midsomer Murders.
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