Braughing, an ancient town and a parish which gives its name to a hundred in Herts. The town stands on the river Quin, adjacent to Ermine Street, and to the Buntingford branch of the G.E.R., 3 1/2 miles SE by S of Buntingford, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ware; money order and telegraph office, Puckeridge. It was a domain of the Saxon kings; was known to the Saxons as Brooking, and to the Normans as Brackinges; and was long a place of considerable importance, and a market-town. Its fair on Whit Monday and Tuesday lasted until 1889, when it was abolished by order of the Home Secretary at the request of the principal residents. Vestiges of the Roman Ad-Fines are at Campwood in its neighbourhood. The parish includes also part of the village of Puckeridge. .Acreage, 4368; population, 974. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £190 with residence. The church, a building of flint in the Lancet and Perpendicular styles, contains some interesting tombs and monuments, and was handsomely restored in 1888 at a cost of £2250. There are also Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. Hamels Park is a chief residence.
