Brompton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brompton, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hawnby
- Hornby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Brompton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Brompton.
Listed Buildings Near Brompton
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Brompton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Thomas - 0.26 km
Grade II
- The Three Horseshoes Inn - 0.08 km
- 42 and 44, Cockpit Hill - 0.08 km
- 10, Lead Lane - 0.13 km
- Chapel House - 0.17 km
- Number 6 (Formerly Listed As Part of 5/6 the Green) - 0.18 km
- 19 and 20, Church View - 0.19 km
- 7 and 8, the Green - 0.2 km
- Number 24 (Formerly Listed As Numbers 22 and 23) - 0.22 km
- 1, 3 and 5, Northallerton Road - 0.23 km
- Rose Cottage Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall - 0.57 km
- The Close - 0.6 km
- Little Close - 0.67 km
- Low Grange - 1.1 km
Brompton Today
Today Brompton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,454 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Brompton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Newsham Grange - 1.4 km SE
- Westhouse - 1.4 km SE
- Northallerton - 3.2 km S
- Yafforth - 3.6 km SW
- Romanby - 3.6 km SW
- Winton - 4.0 km E
Heritage Around Brompton
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Rich Tea · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© wfmillar · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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