ALTON HUNDRED 



BRAMSHOTT 



BRAMSHOTT 



Brenbresete (xi. cent.) ; Bremesete (xii. cent.) ; 

 Brembeshete (xiii. cent.); Brembelshete (xiv. cent.); 

 Bremshote (xv. cent.) ; Bramshote (xvi. cent.). 



Bramshott is a large agricultural and residential 

 parish, containing 6,489 acres (349 of which are 

 in Sussex), and situated, amidst undulating wood- 

 lands and picturesque valleys, on the eastern border 



BRAMSHOTT PLACE. 



of the county. The main road from London to 

 Portsmouth passes through its length from north- 

 east to south-west, and the Portsmouth branch 

 of the London and South Western railway skirts 

 its southern side. There is a station at Lip- 

 hook, a hamlet of the parish and now the 

 chief centre of population, possessing a public 

 reading room and library and a village hall. The 

 southern tributary of the river Wey flows into the 

 parish from Surrey at Hammer Bottom, and at 

 Bramshott Mills receives a stream which descends 

 from a succession of small lakes called Wakeners or 

 Waggoners Wells (anciently called Downwater), 

 and then flows through the parish to the north-west 

 of Headley. 



In 1853, when portions of the waste land on 

 the borders of Woolmer Forest were enclosed, 

 a new road was constructed across the forest 

 to Greatham. It is this road which connects 

 Liphook with the military camp at Longmoor. 



The parish also contains the hamlets of Conford- 

 Holywater, Passfield and Hammer Vale, and in, 

 eludes a large portion of unenclosed land belong- 

 ing to Woolmer Forest and Wheatsheaf Common. 

 Bohunt farm, Grigg's Green and Lowsley farm 

 were formerly detached parts of Sussex, but in 

 1844 were added to the parish. 1 In 1900 part 

 of the parish was united with a 

 portion of the parish of Headley and 

 formed into the ecclesiastical parish 

 of Greyshott, a rapidly increasing 

 residential district three miles north 

 of Liphook station. 



The village of Bramshott lies to 

 the north of Liphook between the 

 road to Portsmouth and a road to 

 Headley. There are residences of 

 importance at Chiltley and Ludshott. 

 Woolmer Lodge, the residence of Sir 

 Archibald John Macdonald, bart., is 

 erected on the site of an ancient 

 farmhouse, and is surrounded with a 

 wooded park of 200 acres. Down- 

 lands is an eighteenth century man- 

 sion belonging to the Butler family, 

 approached by a long avenue of 

 beech trees which form part of a 

 park of 60 acres, and it is now the 

 residence of E. H. Burrows. Folcy 

 is a modern mansion situated in ex- 

 tensive grounds and is the property 

 of Edward A. Lee. Bramshott Grange 

 was built in 1850 by Sir William 

 Erie ; it is situated near what remains 

 of a sixteenth century residence of 

 the lords of the manor of Bramshott 

 which was called Bramshott Place, 

 and is now the residence of T. W. 

 Erie, J.P. The Royal Anchor Hotel 

 is an ancient inn containing some 

 good carving. 



The hamlet of Hammer, on the 

 eastern side of Bramshott Manor, takes its name 

 from ironworks formerly existing there. These, 

 in the seventeenth century, 

 were carried on at Hammer 

 Iron Pond in Ludshott 

 Manor, and the court rolls of 

 that manor show that Henry 

 Hooke, who developed the 

 industry, made two lakes at 

 Wakeners Wells to supply 

 water power by flooding the 

 waste between Ludshott and 

 Bramshott Manors. The ERIE. Gules three 

 industry had died out in " cal jt s "' ' b * 



' . i 11 r border engrailed silver. 



Bramshott by the middle of 

 the eighteenth century, but was then revived, by 

 John Butler of Chiltley Manor, at Fernhurst, 

 just over the Sussex border. There is a manu- 

 factory for edged tools at Conford and a paper 

 mill at Bohunt farm. In 1795 grazing and gather- 



1 Act 7 & 8 Vic. cap. 61. 

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