Brean

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Brean is a village in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset

Other current and historical names

Breane
Brien

Built-Up Area: Burnham-on-Sea
Parish/Community: Brean
District/Borough: Sedgemoor
County: Somerset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°17'32"N 3°0'36"W
Eastings/Northings: 329655, 155298
OS Grid: ST296552
Mapcode Local: GBR J5.YTRJ
Mapcode Global: VH7CQ.RSZ1

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Brean within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Brean in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Brean, coast par., mid. Somerset, on river Axe, 4 miles SW. of Weston-super-Mare, 1167 ac. land and 2000 water, pop. 148.

Brean in the Domesday Book

A village in Bempstone hundred, in the county of Somerset.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Merleswein the sheriff
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter of Douai
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter of Douai
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 9 villagers; 7 smallholders; 8 cottagers; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Pasture: 30 acres
- Animals in 1086: 10 cattle; 4 pigs

British Place Names

Brean, Somerset

Brean is a village in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset

Brean in historic gazetteers

Brean in the Domesday Book