Brompton, Middlesex
Historical Description
Brompton, a suburb of London, in the parish of Kensington, Middlesex, between Knightsbridge and Chelsea, 3½ miles SW by W of St Paul's. It has post offices under London, SW, and the railway stations of West Brompton and South Kensington. The north-eastern part is called Old Brompton, and the south-eastern part New Brompton. Large part of the area is occupied by streets, terraces, crescents, and squares, chiefly of modern erection, and form a continuous town between Belgravia and Chelsea. A part, formerly called Brompton Park, was famous for nearly 200 years as a nursery-garden. Henry Cromwell, William Penn Ford, Count Rumford, A. Murphy, John Philpot Curran, Sir Richard Phillips, the Rev. W Beloe, Charles Incledon, George Colman, and John Reeve, were residents. See also LONDON.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Middlesex | |
Civil parish | Kensington | |
Hundred | Ossulstone |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Brompton from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.
Maps
Online maps of Brompton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)