Bramley
Bramley, woodland clearing where broom grows, In the Domesday Book was Bramelei .
Source: A Dictionary of English Place-Names. A. D. Mills. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Described in the mid 1850's as a village and township in Braithwell Parish, 4 miles east of Rotherham, has 385 inhabitants and 1010 acres of land in S. W. L. Fox, Esq's manor of Conisbrough. The small ancient church is a curacy and annexed to Braithwell vicarage. The tithes were commuted in 1841 for £209 per annum. Here is a small Wesleyan Chapel in which John Wesley preached in 1786, the simplest church you could wish to find, only 32 feet long and looks like a white cottage, centuries old.
The third image is The Warren, situated on Main Street, formerly the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built in 1785 by M. Waterhouse. John Wesley preached here in 1786. See also Wickersley website for an earlier image of this building
More details about Bramley can be found at Wickersley Web
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