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Brampton has grown into a small town with extensive housing estates including those built to accommodate personnel of the RAF station here. These estates largely engulf the older village with its medieval church alongside the farmhouse where Samuel Pepys, the diarist, was born. In the centre of the High Street is The Grange, a fine hotel and restaurant developed out of the headquarters building of a former Royal Air Force Command.
13th century church of St Mary has three 14th century choir stalls. The walk from the church across the meadows leads onto the vast 300 acre meadow of Portholme.
The village pub is the 16th century timber-framed Black Bull where Samuel Pepys is said to have drunk; on one of the walls is an extract from his writing.
Location: Immediately south-west of Huntingdon
- Type:
- Landmark