The village of Bramshaw is stretched out for several miles along the B3079 road, with the church to the north, the hamlet of Brook to the south and Stock's Cross at its centre.

[6] It is some of the best surviving examples of lowland heath in Europe, still managed by the common grazing of ponies, pigs, donkeys, cattle and sheep.

[6] The parish also contains the highest point in the New Forest at Pipers Wait, some 129 metres above mean sea level.

[6] Bramshaw appears twice in the Domesday Book for Wiltshire, when the lands were held by Wulfnoth and a certain Edmund.

[10] The manor of Bramshaw, together with that of Britford, appears to have been granted by one of the Norman kings to the family of de Lacy sometime during the 12th century.

[14] Through those 165 years it served the children of Bramshaw and nearby hamlets in the New Forest, Brook, Fritham and Furzley.

At that time it was described as 'privately owned', only being registered as a Public Elementary School in 1851 when it began to be supported with government funding.

[15] founded the school, 'demonstrating a paternalistic attitude to the labourers and their children, while providing a picturesque addition to the village scene'.

[17] After the Education Act 1944 introduced the eleven plus examination, older boys and girls moved to a new Secondary Modern School at Bartley, leaving two classes of 5 to 7 and 7 to 11-year-olds.