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A Brompton, Brompton, or The Brompton may refer to:
- Brompton, London, England
- Brompton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England
- Brompton, Medway, a locality within Medway, England
- Brompton, Quebec, a borough of Sherbrooke, in Canada
- Brompton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England (also known as Brompton-by-Sawdon)
- Brompton, Shropshire, Shropshire
- Brompton, South Australia, a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia
- Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, England
- Brompton Oratory, a Catholic church
- Brompton Bicycle, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the United Kingdom
- Holy Trinity Brompton Church, an Anglican church
- Royal Brompton Hospital, focused on heart and lung treatment
- Brompton cocktail, sometimes called Brompton mixture, an elixir for pain prophylaxis
- West Brompton, London, England
- Brompton Cemetery
- Brompton (surname)
- Brompton (Fredericksburg, Virginia), an historic house in Fredericksburg, Virginia
The name Brompton is today mainly associated with locations and businesses, and less so as an actual surname. Given the large number of places with the name, it is oddly surprising that it is so uncommon to come across a "Brompton."
Examples of place names include " Potter Brompton" in East Yorkshire, "Patrick Brompton", "Brompton on Swale", as well as just "Brompton" on its own, all in North Yorkshire, "Ralph Brompton" in Somerset, "Brompton" in Middlesex and Shropshire.
Brompton can be traced back to the 7th century phrase "Brom-ton," meaning "Broom Village," which seems to suggest that Brompton originated as a placename, before it became a surname. The earliest example of Brompton used as a surname was found in the Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire in the year 1205, which mentions Geoffry de Brunton. After this entry, another example is found over a hundred years later in the Devonshire County Letter Books for 1312, a William de Bromptone.
Brompton, originally known as Marye House, is an historic house located on heights overlooking the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The house was built in 1838 by Laurence Mayre. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 1979.
The house sits atop an area of Fredericksburg known as 'Marye's Heights'. The town was about 400 yards from Brompton and was a Confederate stronghold against repeated Union Army assaults on the slope during the Battle of Fredericksburg (1862–1863). Confederate General James Longstreet maintained his headquarters at Brompton.
Brompton currently serves as the residence of the President of the University of Mary Washington.
Usage examples of "brompton".
And Ripon could not but think it hard that he, Geoffrey Ripon, by all right and law Earl of Brompton, Viscount Mapledurham in the peerage of Ireland, etc.
Lord Brompton, I was afraid you would feel nettled that we capitalists should possess your grand old homestead.
But you look serious, Lord Brompton, and less complacent, if I may use the expression, than when we met last.
Lord Brompton, gazing with admiration at the noble creature, who stood on the threshold, panting after his run.
Lord Brompton, pensively, as he entered the familiar library now renovated by the taste of Jawkins.
Lord Brompton, and he put his finger to his lips and nodded toward a low door which was visible a few feet beyond.
Her husband, the great-grandson of the Lord Brompton whose portrait you think I resemble, was killed at Teb, and three days after her body was borne to the tomb.
When she had informed him on their arrival that Lord Brompton was living in the neighborhood, and that she meant to invite him to dinner very soon, the shrewd old man smiled grimly, and acquiesced in her plan.
Lord Brompton, who was at the time listening attentively to a political conversation between Mr.
Geoffrey Ripon, Earl of Brompton, it is to him that this estate used to belong, then?
Lord Brompton might return, and I should not wish him to know I had been here for the world.
That paper exhibited by Dacre would furnish the needed proof of conspiracy, and then good-by, Lord Brompton, to your cherished schemes for fortune.
I shall ever care for you, Lord Brompton, in the way in which you pretend to care for me.
Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.
Nicky Brompton, whom the porter acknowledged with obsequious discretion because he had visited another lady in the building on previous occasions.