Bratton Fleming

Coordinates: 51°07′19″N 3°56′24″W / 51.122°N 3.940°W / 51.122; -3.940
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Bratton Fleming
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBarnstaple
Postcode districtEX31
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
WebsiteParish Council
List of places
UK
England
Devon
51°07′19″N 3°56′24″W / 51.122°N 3.940°W / 51.122; -3.940

Bratton Fleming is a large village,

2011 census had a population of 2,117.[3]

History

The former manor of Bratton Fleming was owned by a succession of families from the Norman Conquest to the 19th century. The Flemings had their seat at Chimwell which Tristram Risdon described as "one of the largest demesnes of this shire". According to W. G. Hoskins, Chimwell is now a farmhouse called Chumhill.[4] Other Domesday manors in the parish were Benton and Haxton. The great jurist Henry de Bracton (c. 1210 – c. 1268) was either born here or at Bratton Clovelly.

The village was once served by a

narrow gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
; the trackbed runs close to the village. The street names Station Road and Station Hill survive.

Church

St Peter's Church was rebuilt on the site of a much older building in 1861; parts of the north chancel chapel are from the 14th century.[5]

Rev. Gascoigne Canham (d. 1667), Rector of Arlington, whose mural monument exists in Arlington Church, and a relative by marriage to the Chichester family of Arlington (a cadet branch of the Chichesters of Raleigh and later of Youlston, lords of the manor of Bratton Fleming), purchased in 1665 the advowson of Bratton Fleming, 2 1/2 miles south-east of Arlington, from Sir Francis Godolphin for £300,[6] and on 27 March 1667 he signed a deed granting the advowson in perpetuity to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, of which he was a member.[7] He also gave £10 toward the Combination Room of that college.[8] A mural monument exists in St Peter's Church, Bratton Fleming, to Rev. Bartholomew Wortley, the first rector to be appointed by Gonville & Caius. He was aged about 50 when appointed and remained in office until his death in 1749 aged 97.

A

W.G. Hoskins' book Field Work in Local History and used as an example of how useful glebe terriers are in researching parish history in general.[9]

Since 2004, the church building has been shared between the Church of England and the Methodists.[10] The parish is part of the CofE's Shirwell Mission Community (a group of eight churches),[11] and is also part of the Ilfracombe and Barnstaple Methodist circuit.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Election Maps: Great Britain". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  4. ISBN 0-7153-5577-5
  5. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (1325277)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  6. ^ Copy deed held at North Devon Record Office (1506 A-1/PI5)
  7. ^ Worthy, Charles, Devonshire Wills: A Collection of a Number of Testaments
  8. ^ Venn, John, Biographical History of Gonville & Caius College, 1897, pp.280-1, 287
  9. ^ Field Work in Local History, 2nd edition, 1982. Page 99. Faber&Faber
  10. ^ a b "Church". Bratton Fleming Parish Council. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Bratton Fleming Anglo-Methodist Church". Shirwell Mission Community. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

External links

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