Bricklehampton is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

, England. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was recorded as 220. Its area is . The village shares a parish council with Elmley Castle and Netherton.

History

The name at the time of the

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in 1086 was ''Bricstelmenstune''. Bricklehampton's parish church, dedicated to St Michael and All Angels, is a grade II

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. The medieval church was rebuilt and restored in 1875-1877 but the 12th-century font and south doorway remain. there are 12 listed buildings in the parish, all at grade II, including the 1848 mansion Bricklehampton Hall, now a nursing home, and a

K6 telephone box The red telephone box, a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar. Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years ...

Longest one word place name in English

According to linguist

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, the 14-letter town name is perhaps the longest one-word place name in the English-speaking world that does not repeat any letter. Two places named Buslingthorpe ( one in Leeds and in one in Lincolnshire) and

Buckfastleigh Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway ( A38) at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery ...

in Devon had previously been thought to share this honour, with 13 unique letters.

References

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