Brompton (near Northallerton), Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Brompton (near Northallerton) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from a chapelry in Northallerton Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1593
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Brompton Parish Registers

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Brompton Bishops Transcripts 1660-1808

Brompton Bishops Transcripts 1710-1734

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROMPTON, a chapelry in Northallerton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Northeastern railway, 1½ mile N of Northallerton. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Northallerton. Acres, 3,801. Real property, £6,670. Pop., 1,398. Houses, 316. The property is much subdivided. Here is Standard hill, the scene of the victory over the Scots in 1138. The inhabitants are chiefly weavers. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £120. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is good; and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BROMPTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Northallerton, wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 1¾ mile (N. N. E.) from Northallerton; containing 1535 inhabitants. In this chapelry is Standard Hill, where the memorable battle of the Standard was fought, on the 23rd of August, 1138; the battle being thus named from a large banner having been placed on a lofty pole, which was fixed on a waggon and borne with the troops. The manufacture of linen is carried on.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, with an income of £120: the chapel is ancient. Tithe rentcharges have been awarded amounting to £590. 0. 7., of which £423. 3. are payable to the impropriators, and £166. 17. 7. to the vicar; the glebe consists of 47 acres. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists; and two schools endowed with £10 per annum each.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northallerton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Bishop of Durham and the Dean and Chapter in Allerton and Allertonshire
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Cleveland
  • Poor Law Union: Northallerton
  • Hundred: Allertonshire
  • Province: York