Braishfield
Sign in to saveBraishfield is a village and civil parish north of Romsey in Hampshire, England. The name is thought to be derived from the Old English bræsc + feld, meaning 'open land with small branches or brushwood'. The hamlet of Pucknall lies due east of the village.
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Place details
- Locality
- Test Valley
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image
- Braishfield|200px
- UK place.official_name
- Braishfield
- UK place.population
- 643
- UK place.population_ref
- 684 (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Test Valley
- UK place.shire_county
- Hampshire
- UK place.civil_parish
- Braishfield
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Romsey and Southampton North
- UK place.post_town
- Romsey
- UK place.postcode_district
- SO51
- UK place.postcode_area
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +684
- Image
- Braishfield Hampshire.jpg
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Article
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Braishfield is a village and civil parish north of Romsey in Hampshire, England. The name is thought to be derived from the Old English bræsc + feld, meaning 'open land with small branches or brushwood'. The hamlet of Pucknall lies due east of the village.
==Geology== The parish lies on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north. To the south and east of the village this is overlain by Palaeocene sands and clays of the Lambeth Group. At the southern edge the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens are on younger deposits of Eocene age, sloping from a ridge of the Nursling sands into a valley of London Clay.