Brompton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brompton, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Brompton at 4 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Brompton is recorded as waste in 1086 - land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 1 shilling; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern - prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 - is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North , William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Brompton (1086)

• Woodland: 4 * 4 furlongs

Other Settlements in Dic

• Aislaby
• Allerston
• Appleton [le Moors]
• Aschelesmersc
• Aschilesmares
• Barton [le Street]
• Baschebi
• Baschesbi
• Burniston
• Burton [Dale]
• Cawthorn
• Cayton
• Chigogemers
• Chigomersc

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 29 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 All Saints - 0.47 km

Grade II

• Green Farmhouse - 0.03 km
• Brompton-by-Sawdon War Memorial - 0.21 km
• Manor House - 0.24 km
• 2, Hungate - 0.24 km
• 3, Hungate - 0.25 km
• 4, Hungate - 0.25 km
• Rose Cottage - 0.28 km
• Yew Cottage - 0.31 km
• Dale Lodge - 0.35 km
• Gates and Railings to Dale Lodge - 0.35 km
• Gatepiers - 0.37 km
• Garden House 30 Metres East of Brompton Hall - 0.38 km
• Gate Piers Approximately 1.5 Metres East of Brompton Hall - 0.41 km
• 5, Church Lane - 0.42 km
• Brompton Hall School - 0.44 km
• Number 1 (Foxglove Cottage) and Number 2 - 0.61 km
• Low Hall Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.64 km
• Keepers Cottage - 0.72 km
• Brick Kiln Approximately 10 Metres South of Manor House - 0.78 km
• Chapel of Rest - 0.79 km
• Dovecote Approximately 40 Metres North West of Low Hall - 0.99 km
• Low Hall - 0.99 km
• Gatepiers Approximately 50 Metres South East of Low Hall - 1.0 km

…and 5 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Brompton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Brompton:

• Castle Hill fortified house - 0.34 km
• Dovecote at Low Hall - 0.99 km

Brompton Today

Today Brompton lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 523 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:

• Ruston - 1.4 km NE
• Wykeham - 2.2 km NE
• Martin Garth - 2.8 km NE
• Snainton - 3.0 km W
• Hutton Buscel - 3.6 km NE
• Preston Hill - 3.6 km NE