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Breamore ( ) is a village and civil parish near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England.
The parish includes a notable Elizabethan country house, Breamore House, built with an E-shaped ground plan.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary has an Anglo-Saxon rood.
Within the Parish is the Marsh (an important surviving manorial green) and the River Avon: both are listed as Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
Other parts of the Parish fall within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The name Breamore, recorded as Brumore in 1086, may be derived from Old English "Brommor" meaning "broom(covered) marsh". At an early date the manor of Breamore belonged to the Crown Estate, and in 1086 was part of the royal manor of Rockbourne.
At an early date, probably by grant of Henry I, Breamore passed to the Earls of Devon, lords of the Isle of Wight, who held it from the king in chief. In 1299, Edward I assigned it to his consort, Margaret of France, but in 1302 Breamore was delivered to Hugh de Courtenay. From that time, it descended with the Earls of Devon until it was granted, in 1467, to Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy.
In 1475, Breamore to the king, who granted it for life in 1490 to Sir Hugh Conway and Elizabeth his wife. In 1512, it was granted to Catherine of York widow of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon and her heirs. Her son Henry was created Marquess of Exeter in 1525, but was beheaded in 1538–9, when the manor again passed to the Crown.
The manor was granted in 1541 to the queen consort, Catherine Howard, and in 1544 to Catherine Parr, who, after the death of Henry VIII, married Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, to whom Breamore was granted by Edward VI in 1547. On his execution in 1549 it again passed to the Crown and was granted in 1579 by Elizabeth I to Christopher Hatton. William Dodington purchased from him and died in 1600 leaving a son and heir Sir William. From this date Breamore followed the descent of South Charford until 1741, when Francis Lord Brooke sold it to Samuel Dixon, preliminary to its sale to Sir Edward Hulse.
Breamore railway station opened in 1866. It was served by the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, a line running north–south along the River Avon, connecting Salisbury to the North and Poole to the South. It closed in 1964, the disused station still exists on the road that leads east from the A338.
The building consists of a chancel and aisleless nave separated by square central tower. The east window with net like tracery dates from 1340. Seven "double-splayed" Saxon windows remain, and there is a "leper window" in the north wall.
The chancel arch and arch in west wall of the tower are 15th century. The tower houses four bells cast in late 16th and early 17th centuries.
There is an Anglo Saxon inscription dating from the reign of Æthelred the Unready, and a badly mutilated Saxon rood with figures of Our Lady and Saint John.
On the dissolution of the priory in July 1536 the site was granted in November of that year with the manors of Breamore and Bulborn to Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter and his wife Gertrude. It then followed the descent of Breamore Bulborn, becoming merged in that manor.
It suffered from a fire in 1856, but was restored on the old lines.
This incorporated such of the old masonry as was left, and now still resembles an Elizabethan building.
They were restored after being badly damaged by a lorry.
The stocks have a Pillory and horizontals with four leg holes. A modern roof has been erected over them.
Near the mill on the road to Woodgreen village is a Victorian bridge will elaborate cast iron sides.
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