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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (West Riding) => Topic started by: tink.tech on Saturday 01 June 19 13:34 BST (UK)
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I have found some relatives on electoral registers 1950 living in Todwick at Brampton camp,
does anyone know what this was ??
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I think you would do better to provide the record reference.
The only sensible Brampton Camp Reference I can find suggests it's now RAF Brampton. That's not Yorkshire
https://www.todwick.org.uk/village/history.html makes no obvious links to Brampton
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Not sure where to find the reference number but it is
Anston North and South Polling District
1950 page 67
found 1948 is hut 8 Brompton Lane, Todwick
I have googled and found nothing was wondering if anyone had local knowledge
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Anston North/Todwick is Sheffield/Rotherham area.
Brian
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Ok, so which website did you use?
I'm coming up with nothing here...
You've used Brampton and Brompton , Camp and Lane
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There is a Brampton Common just north of Todwick
Emeltom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anston
https://www.todwick.org.uk/village/history.html
Brian
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I used Ancestry to find the electoral registers and it was in the
West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962
I have now been through all the registers they have and they were there 1948 - 1950
1948 said Hut 8 Brampton Lane
1950 said 8 Brampton Camp
But surprised that seeing as the address is in the registers there is no information online.
wondering what sort of camp it was and why they were there??
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I have arrived here rather late so I hope tink.tech is still around. There is confusion about the location because it is near the junction of three parish boundaries. I think it was probably a small army camp, perhaps used by soldiers manning artillery defences etc. in an area which is a few miles east of the manufacturing district of Rotherham and Sheffield. At another camp further north-west in Rawmarsh, at the end of the war the camp was abandoned and homeless people just moved in. There, the urban district council ended up managing it as "council housing" until people could be re-housed, which took more than 10 years.
This site is shown on an OS map, a 6-inch provisional revision of 1948, which shows buildings added since 1928 as unshaded hollow blocks: https://maps.nls.uk/view/100950197
The camp is north of Todwick village, unlabelled. Look at the upper centre of the map, by a T junction on Common Road, there is a cluster of hollow buildings with a 325 ft contour running through them. (Grid ref 498861) This is in a late 18th cent. landscape of commons enclosures with straight roads which tend to turn through angles at parish boundaries. The Todwick boundary is just south of the camp. The camp is actually in a corner of the parish of North and South Anston, hence the electoral registers. A short distance to the NW, Common Road becomes Long Road across Brampton Common which leads to the village of Brampton en le Morthen. Nothing remains on the site now - an arable field.