Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROMHALL

BROMHALL, a hamlet in Sunninghill parish, Berks. Here was a small Benedictine nunnery, founded before the time of King John; and given, at the dissolution, to St. John's college, Cambridge. Here also was the residence of Richard II.'s queen, Isabella.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sunninghill CP/AP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Bromhall

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