Description
Bramley, a parish in Surrey, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 44 miles from London, and 3 S by E of Guildford, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4544 ; population of the civil parish, 1912; of the ecclesiastical, 1468. The manor-house is an old edifice, with picturesque gables, now occupied as a farm. The Constitutional Hall was built in 1888, and will hold 350 persons. There is also a good reading-room and library. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman, and has a good Early English chancel. It was enlarged in 1877, and again in 1888.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
