Bramber is a former
manor, village and
civil parish in the
Horsham District of
West Sussex, England. It has a ruined mediaeval castle which was the
caput of a large
feudal barony. Bramber is located on the northern edge of the
South Downs and on the west side of the
River Adur. Nearby are the communities of
Steyning to the west and
Upper Beeding to the east, and the other side of the river. The closest historical connection, however, is with the village of
Botolphs to the south. The ecclesiastical parishes of Bramber and Botolphs were united possibly as early as 1526, but certainly by 1534 with the priest living at Botolphs. Later the priest's official residence became the imposing Bramber mansion and landmark now called 'Burletts' and located on Clays Hill. The union of the civil parish councils followed 400 years later in 1933.