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Brompton is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about north of the county town of Northallerton. Practically a suburb of the nearby county town, the village was near the site of a battle between English and Scots armies and was the location of mills producing linen goods from the 18th century onward. With 2,055 people this village has grown considerably since the 1800s. ==History== The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as ''Bruntone'' in the Allerton hundred. Prior to the invasion, the manor was granted to ''Earl Edwin'', but subsequently granted in 1086 to the Crown and were added to the lands that were the possession of the Bishop of Durham St Cuthbert and remained so after 1086. In 1836 those lands were transferred to the see of Ripon. The village became an ecclesiastical parish in 1843.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 The etymology of the name is derived from a combination of the Old English word ''brōm'', meaning ''broom'' and the Old English suffix of ''tūn'', meaning ''farm or settlement''. Put together they mean ''broom farm''. The traditionally held location for the site of the Battle of the Standard in 1138 is land just north-west of the village, on an area of land bounded by the A167 to the west, an overgrown track known as Scotpit Lane to the south and Brompton Lane to the east that is called Standard Hill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English Heritage Battlefield Report: Northallerton 1138 )〕 This site was also where local militia gathered prior to the campaign to retake Scotland by Edward I in 1303.〔 The village was an important centre for linen making and weaving in the 19th century with eight mills in the village at its peak in 1820〔 but declined by the early 20th century. The last mill was located in what is now the residential area of Linen Way. Bricks from the demolished chimney now form a memorial to linen workers which is situated on Water End Green, opposite the Village Inn. The village is now largely residential with just a few small businesses. The village of Brompton has one of the earliest online interactive war memorials where it is possible to find out information about and see photographs of the soldiers to have died in World War I and World War II from the Brompton area. The river running through the village is named Brompton Beck. This was the water source for the linen mills and as result created regular floods, mainly at the Water End area of the village. Since the factory's demolition flooding is no longer commonplace and the last time any properties suffered flood damage was 2000. Extensive flood defence work has since been carried out, mainly to protect the school and Station Road area by the building of flood banks. Engineering work has also been carried out on various parts of the river such as the removal and widening of bends in the banks and creating a bypass when the water reaches its peak. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brompton, Hambleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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