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HAMP5HIRE 5 miles north of Lyndhurst Open moorland, with patches of beechwood and holly undergrowth, sprawls across the northern fringe of the New Forest, and Bramshaw lies scattered and hidden among the trees. Most of the visible houses are at the extremes of the parish - Brook in the south, Nomansland in the north and Fritham in the east. At Nomansland, so called, it is said, because it was originally built by squatters, red-brick houses sit back from the village green with its cricket pitch. Bramshaw Telegraph is a 419 ft hill about 3 miles west of the village. In the 19th century a semaphore signal stood on the hill, one of a chain of telegraph posts between Portsmouth and the Admiralty in London. Bramshaw’s church, St Peter’s, stands on a small hill flanked with rhododendrons. Parts of the church, including the tower, are 13th century, but most of the brick, timber and stone building dates from 1829. There is a memorial to seven men of the parish who died in the Titanic disaster in 1912. They had set out as emigrants to seek a new way of life in America. |
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