Welcome to Brompton - with Maps of Village and surrounding area
Brompton Heritage Group (BHG)
A Brief History of Brompton's Linen Industry
2009 Brompton Heritage & Family History Day - Sat 14 March
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BROMPTON IN FLOOD - Pictures and stories
PEOPLE & PLACES IN DAYS GONE BY - Pictures & Stories
A WALK ROUND BROMPTON as it is now -- come & join us........
BROMPTON SCHOOLDAYS - Pictures & Stories
VERA BRITTAIN'S - My Brompton Days in pictures & words
DOREEN NEWCOMBE nee FORTH - My Brompton Days
John Wilford & Sons - Linen Manufacturers
Pattison-Yeoman, Linen Manufacturers-Old Pictures
FARMING around Brompton - People, Places & Stories
Northallerton & District Local History Society (N.D.L.H.S.)
WATER END UPSTREAM, DOWNSTREAM. By George Appleby
FOOTBALL IN BROMPTON - History and Pictures
ST THOMAS CHURCH APPEAL
"CLACKING SHUTTLES" & Florence Bone
LOOKING FOR ANCESTORS/FAMILY HISTORY/GENEALOGY
WHITSUNTIDE CARNIVAL & SPORTS- pictures
"My Family Life in Brompton" by Betty Dobson (Baines)
The Boon Family story - Fred and Desmond (Dizzy) Boon
The Chartists of Brompton - from a talk by Harry Fairburn
EVACUATION TO BROMPTON - WW2 - Sunderland Bede Collegiate Boys’
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Pictures of Brompton and surrounding area
 | This page is primarily for those with ancestors/relatives from Brompton who are not lucky enough to be able to visit the village and are therefore curious to know what the village looks like, albeit a modern day view of it.
Hope this gives you some idea of the layout of the village, we hope to have a more detailed plan of the houses, shops, pubs etc later.
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A Walk around Brompton
 | This image of Brompton is courtesy of Google Earth and should give you a rough idea of the lay of the land. We think the image is dated AD 2001?
A visit to Google Earth will give you the opportunity to have a look around Brompton and the surrounding area.
We have attempted to add directions in order to orientate you however you need to be a little flexible when we use the terms "North South East and West".
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Map of Brompton to help you walk around with us
 | Welcome to Brompton by Northallerton and your walk around the village with us on this "Cooke's tour."
(All the pictures in this section were kindly contributed by Harry Cooke)
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Church Green and High Green in winter snow
 | Looking South in the early winter sunshine from the archway of the Manor House on Church View shows snow covered Church Green with the Northallerton bus stop to the left and the houses on High Green and the start of the cottages on the right which is Number 1 Northallerton Road.
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South Side of High Green
 | The old Methodist Chapel (now residential) stands proudly on the southern side of High Green in the centre of a row of picturesque old houses, many of which are listed. The present Methodist Chapel stands about 100 yards away on the right.
Seeing it in the winter snow makes it hard to believe that this area plays host to the Annual Carnival Children’s Sports and Disco at Whitsuntide.
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Church View looking back from Shop End in winter
 | Here we turn to look West down Church View – these houses on the right hand side are known as High Green North side in many of the old Census returns.
The Lych gate memorial at St Thomas Church can just be seen on the very far left of the picture. The Manor House where we saw the earlier view from the archway is about half-way down on the right. There is a mixture of houses on Church View from single roomed ex-weavers cottage to larger houses and there were a fair number of shops and businesses. The last shop to close at Shop End can be seen on the near right hand side, this was the Post Office until very recently.
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St Thomas and the Lych Gate Memorial
 | Walking across the green we look West across to the Church and the Lych Gate which is the Village memorial to those men of the Village who did not return from two World Wars. Details of the men honoured here can be found on the Northallerton Memorials Website (see Links page on the lower left)
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Looking Southwest up Northallerton Road
 | This is a modern view of Northallerton Road with the cottages on the left and the houses on the right. The shop and current Post Office can be seen on the right and an old view of this picture can be seen on the "Pictures of People and Places in Days Gone By" page on the left. In the old picture, the children are standing and posing in the road with a lone cyclist making his way down the hill.
This is probably the busiest road in Brompton at the present day and children no longer stand and pose in the road.
For the next picture, we will leave the snow behind and turning to our right we will look North from the same position.
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Church Green looking North from the same spot
 | Here is the Lych Gate on the left, the building at the other end of the green with the white garage door to the left of the Manor House is now a private house and garage. It started life as Aaron Wilford’s shop, then the Garnett’s shop, then the Grimston’s shop and more recently, Roxborough’s sweet shop.
The Manor House with the 3 bays and the 2 doors (one white & one red) with the basket style archway was for many years the main Wilford household. The Wilford Mill chimney can be seen in the background dating this picture to before November 2003 which is when the chimney was demolished.
The Lord of the Manor of Brompton has always been the Bishop of Durham and he certainly never lived in this “Manor House” although he could have stayed there in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when the whole house and the courtyard behind was converted into the Manor House Hotel for a short period.
It has now reverted to private housing.
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Copper Beech in St Thomas Churchyard
 | This view in Autumn of the magnificent Copper Beech in the corner of St Thomas churchyard is taken from outside the Manor House. Many of the Wilford family are buried in this corner near where they lived.
We now turn around and move off North east to Shop end and the crossroads of (starting in the North and moving clockwise) Station Road (leads to Deighton and the A167 Darlington Road), Cockpit Hill to the East(leads to Water End), Lead Lane to the South (leads to the Green Tree, Stokesley Road and Bullamoor via the A684 which by-passes the main village centre, High Green to the Southwest and Northallerton Road to the west (roughly!!)
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Looking back (west) from Shop End
 | This view back from the crossroads shows the size of Church Green. This is where the fair is situated at the annual Whitsuntide carnival and where the annual Church Fayre is held. During the remainder of the year, it is either splendidly edged in daffodils or the trees are showing their wonderful foliage. The bigger trees also provide nesting areas for the village crows and other birds, give a plentiful supply of conkers in the autumn and during the rest of the year, besides providing a lovely setting for the surrounding houses, the green is used mainly by dog walkers and visitors having picnics.
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View North up Station Road
 | This view is from almost the same position as the picture of the Blacksmith’s shop on the “Pictures of People and Places in Days Gone By" page. The Three Horse Shoes on the right, the Crown (pale stone coloured building on the left) and the brick building and the remains of the Blacksmiths shop and cottage in the centre with the tiled roof and the white wall.
Wilford’s mill chimney is in the shot taken on a damp day just as the chimney was being demolished in November 2003.
The road to the lower right leads uphill over Cockpit Hill where we will now go for our next view.
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Looking SouthWest from the top of Cockpit Hill
 | Here we have walked up Cockpit Hill and turned around to look back at the crossroads and High Green/Church Green. The building on the right shows the porch which is the entrance to the current Village Hall which is the old Temperance Hall built in 1876. There are mostly old cottages on both sides however a few of the older cottages were demolished in the 1960’s and replaced by the flats which can be seen on the far left.
All the other building have been around for some time and the whole area of the old village is a conservation area so generally speaking, they look pretty much have they have done for many years. Although there is mains gas in the village, a large number of houses are still heated by coal/solid fuel and the local coalman makes a daily delivery around the village throughout the year.
Needless to say, the smell of the coal fires and the dimly lit small windows of many of the cottages, particularly on a cold damp winter’s evening when most people are settled down in front of the fire, gives the village an atmosphere which probably hasn’t changed that much over the years.
Turning round now we look down the other side of Cockpit Hill towards Water End
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Looking East (ish) down Cockpit Hill towards Water End
 | Here we can see the narrow road with the raised walkway on one side leading down the hill to Water End. Again, lots of small ex-weavers and ex-spinners cottages with another sprinkling of shops. There were once around 20 shops in Brompton.
We will walk to the bottom of the hill now………..
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Welcome to Water End
 | Having reached the bottom of the hill the road splits into two with Willow Beck and Water End green down the middle between rows of cottages and houses on either side.
Here is the Wilford Bridge leading past Cedar Mount, Stainthorpe’s cottages, Hodgson’s cottages and on to Fullicar Lane. At the time of this photo, the beck does not have much water in it.
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BUT, it isn’t called Water End for nothing…………..
 | This was the floods of August 2002, it only rained for a couple of days and this happened. Here you can clearly see the split in the road, the left hand one leading to Fullicar Lane and the right hand one past the Village Inn and eventually out onto the Stokesley Road leading to Osmotherley and the North York Moors National Park or to Teesside via the A19 trunk road which passes within a few miles of Brompton.
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Wilford Bridge stands out of the water
 | The water has risen to the level of the bridge. Some of the houses suffered damage and many people’s lives were disrupted yet again. There have been a few small improvements to help alleviate the flooding which have helped a bit however the main plan of damming 3 or 4 areas upstream to hold back the flood water and release it under control, seems to be on a permanent list marked “This will solve the flooding problem but we don’t have any money this year and we hope it will be done next year………..!!!”
We live in hope that one day, Brompton will flood no more.
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North side of Water End under water
 | Here can be seen the extent of the flooding on the North side. In the area of Stainthorpe’s cottages, sandbagged doorways can be seen. The middle bridge stands just out of the water on the right.
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The same view when the beck is not flooded
 | This view North shows (through the trees) from left to right, The Old Windmill (now restored – story of how it was done will be told as a separate story), Cedar Mount, row of cottages including Stainthorpe’s cottages and the beck following the line of daffodils from left to right.
We will move on now further up Water End for a few yards and then we will look back at Cockpit Hill and the area where the road splits.
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Looking back to the West
 | Looking back we can see the bridge on our right, the old steam corn mill (now houses) beyond the bridge and the houses on the left which run all the way along that south side of Water End. Cockpit Hill is in the distance beyond the green where the far end of the bridge fence ends.
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South side of Water End in deepest winter
 | This winter shot looking back shows the cottages and houses all the way down the south side of Water End near the Village Inn.
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Moving down towards far end of Water End towards Fullicar
 | Looking East again towards the far end of Water end where there is a ford through the beck and a footbridge. The Village Inn pub is on the right here and the road ahead leads up Fullicar Lane and although it is a dead-end traffic wise, it is a busy lane for farm traffic as can be seen by the tracks worn on the snowy road. The footbridge can just be seen between the trees
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Looking back down Water End from bridge and ford area
 | This summer shot is looking back west over the almost empty ford through the beck. This picture is taken from the footbridge and most of the cottages and houses, which run virtually continually down both sides of the open green and beck, are all obscured by the magnificent foliage of our village trees.
Hard to believe that a couple of days of continuous rain turn this placid water course into a nightmare for some villagers.
We will turn round now and walk across the last bit of village green and look over the hedge and the fields between Fullicar Lane on our left and the A684 Stokesley Road.
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Looking East towards Osmotherley and the North York Moors
 | In this lovely summer shot you can see the proximity of the hills of the North York Moors. The crop is ripening and this is the very edge of the last of the village green in Brompton before it gives way to open farmland.
There is a seat here to rest awhile………………..give it a try one day.
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Winter view of Brompton from Fullicar Lane
 | Here we are looking back in a southwest direction to see the snowy rooftops of Water End over the fields which are quietly growing their crops below the blanket of snow.
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Leeds to Stockton railway built in 1850’s
 | Halfway up Fullicar Lane, we cross the rail line by this bridge. Here we are looking back towards Brompton and the next station which is now at Northallerton.
The station and sidings at Brompton are no longer there, the level crossing at Station Road is where Brompton station once stood, about a couple of hundred yards from the crossroads in the centre of the village.
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Looking east from Fullicar Lane
 | Here we can see the North York Moors in the distance with the A684 Stokesley road winding past the Banks and up Winton bank towards Ellerbeck and Osmotherley
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Long Lane seen from near the A684 and Hallikeld Corner
 | This spring view looking north shows the stone walls of the old bridge covered in daffodils with the road bridge of Long Lane heading in a straight line to the north.
This old Roman road runs on the eastern boundary of Brompton parish and was one of the original North/South routes which ran from York to Durham and crosses the River Tees into the County of Durham a few miles to the north of Brompton.
We hope you enjoyed walking around Brompton with us -
come and give it a try yourself one day.
Goodbye from the Cooke's Tour
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