Brimpton History: Brimpton Common & The Fuel Allotments
While the modern parish of Brimpton is made up of three distinct areas (Brimpton Village, Hyde End and Brimpton Common) they don’t all share the same long history. Up until a couple of centuries ago, Brimpton Common was more well known as ‘The Waste’, and only played host to about a dozen dwellings – the majority of what is now Brimpton Common was (as the name might suggest) a Manorial common grazing area, mainly used by transient folk and the…