BRAMPTON-BRYAN, a parish comprising the
lordship of Stanage in the hundred of KNIGHTON,
county of RADNOR (WALES), and the townships of
Brampton-Bryan and Boresford with Pedwardine, in
the' hundred of WIGMORE, county of HEREFORD, and
containing 341 inhabitants, of which number, 101 are
in the township of Brampton-Bryan, 5 J miles (E.) from
Knighton. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's
books at £5. 1.1. 0., and in the patronage of the
Earl of Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Barnabas,
sustained considerable damage in the parliamentary
war, during one of the sieges of the castle, which
was eventually burnt by the royalists, and now lies in
ruins, consisting chiefly of an arched gateway flanked
by two circular towers, and fragments of the outer
walls. About a mile from the church is Cornwall Knoll,
on the summit of which are vestiges of a camp anciently
occupied by the brave Caractacus, now overgrown with
oak trees. Fairs for horned cattle, sheep, &c., are held
on May 6th and August 5th. A school is endowed with
property given by the Hon. Edward Harley, in 1720.