Braishfield

infobox UK place
country = England
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latitude= 51.024290
longitude=-1.466620
official_name=Braishfield
population = 643 [ cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=795140&c=Braishfield&d=16&e=15&g=452678&i=1001x1003x1004&k=Stockbridge&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1204222125546&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=Parish Headcounts, Area: Braishfield CP|work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |date=2001|accessdate=2008-02-28]
shire_district=Test Valley
shire_county = Hampshire
civil_parish=Braishfield
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Romsey
post_town=Romsey
postcode_district = SO51
postcode_area=SO
dial_code= 01794
os_grid_reference=SU374252

Braishfield is a village and civil parish to the north of Romsey in Hampshire, England. It has no main roads or railways, but is crossed by the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath. The parish church of All Saints was built in 1855.

Archaeological discoveries in Braishfield include the remains of the oldest dwellings to be found in Great Britain and the first Neolithic dwelling site of any kind to be discovered in Hampshire. [cite web|url=http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol09/page017.html|title=Braishfield - Archaeological Sites and Remains|work=Hampshire Treasures: Vol 9 (Test Valley South),P17|publisher=Hampshire County Council|accessdate=2008-02-28] The parish lies on the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin, with chalk in the north. To the south and east of the village this is overlain by Palaeocene sands and clays of the Lambeth Group. At the southern edge the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens are on younger deposits of Eocene age, sloping from a ridge of the Nursling sands into a valley of London Clay. [British Geological Survey, 2002, "England & Wales Sheet 299: Winchester", 1:50,000 Geology Series, Keyworth, Nottingham:British Geological Survey, ISBN 07518-3340-1]

The television series Worzel Gummidge was filmed in part here, including scenes at the school.

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