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Bramhope is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England, north of Holt Park and north east of Cookridge. The village is north of Leeds city centre. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 3,400〔 and it is in the LS16 Leeds postcode area. It is predominantly made up of large, privately owned houses which tend to be above the average value for properties in West Yorkshire. Bramhope is in the Leeds North West constituency; its Member of Parliament is Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland, who won the seat from Labour in the 2005 general election. == History == The earliest known settlement in the area was a British camp established off Moor Road. The Romans built a road through the area from Adel to Ilkley, traces of which remain in a field near Leeds Bradford Airport. The place-name Bramhope appears first in the ''Domesday Book'' as "Bra(m)hop", with later medieval spellings including ''Bramhop(a)'' and ''Bramhop(p)e''. The name seems to derive from Old English ''brōm'' 'broom' + ''hōp'' 'a small valley, side-valley off a larger valley', here referring to a small valley off Wharfedale.〔Victor Watts (ed.), ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. ''BRAMHOPE''.〕 In 1086, Bramhope was the manor of an Anglo-Saxon thegn, Uchill. In 1095 the manor passed to Percy family, and in 1165 was sold to Ralph de Bramhope. In the 13th century the monasteries owned much of the land and had granges where sheep were grazed. The monks used tracks, such as Scotland Lane and Staircase Lane, as they travelled from their outlying granges to Kirkstall Abbey.〔 The village had a small population until the 20th century. The Black Death of 1348-09 reduced the number of adults to 34, but this gradually increased to about 400 in 1900. Now it is approximately 3,400.〔 Water was drawn from private wells or the town well at the foot of Northgate (now Church Hill). The town well was restored in 1991 by the Bramhope History Group, and is located opposite St Giles Church.〔 The plaque says that the well was exposed in 1991, so perhaps it had been lost for some time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bramhope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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