- Hundred: Totmonslow
- County: Staffordshire
- Total population: 7 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 0.3 geld units (very small).
- Taxable units: Taxable value 0.3 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £1.
- Households: 4 villagers. 1 smallholder. 2 slaves.
- Ploughland: 3 ploughlands (land for). 1 lord’s plough teams. 1 men’s plough teams.
- Other resources: Woodland 0.5 league * 4 furlongs mixed measures.
- Lord in 1066: Wulfgeat of Madeley.
- Lord in 1086: Bagot.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Robert of Stafford.
- Phillimore reference: 11,38
Excerpt from the first free online copy of Domesday Book
“Bramshall, or Bromshall, a small village, on the north bank of a little rivulet, two miles W of Uttoxeter, has a station on the North Staffordshire Railway. Its parish includes the hamlet of Dagdale, on a declivity, half a mile N of the church, and contains 170 inhabitants and about 1300 acres of land. Lord Willoughby-de-Broke is the principal land owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory.
The south side of the village, called Little Bromshall, is in Uttoxeter parish.”
[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]
Census
The population of Bramshall parish was as follows:
1831 — 170
1841 — 170
Church History
“Bramshall Parish Church, St Lawrence, is a small structure, which was erected on the site of the old one in 1834. The rectory is in the incumbency of the Rev CJ Pinfold.”
[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]
Church Records
Church of England Registers
The parish register of the parish church of St Lawrence commences in 1587. The original registers for the period 1587-1927 (Bapts), 1587-1996 (Mar) & 1587-1940 (Bur) are deposited at Staffordshire Record Office. Bishops Transcripts, 1673-1889 (with gaps 1685-90, 1758-62 & 1766-73) are deposited at Lichfield Record Office.
Poorhouses, Poor Law etc
The parish became part of Uttoxeter Union following the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.