Brancepeth is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England.

[1] The name likely derives from "Bran's Path", after St Brandon, the parish church's patron saint.

There is a legend that Brancepeth was once terrorised by an enormous brawn (boar), which was eventually killed by a knight named Sir Roger de Ferie in 1208.

The castle was extensively modified and rebuilt in the 19th century by Viscount Boyne (later Baron Brancepeth).

[5] In 1924, Harry Colt laid out a golf course on the deer park which formed part of the estate surrounding the castle.