Brompton, London (gbr)

Brompton, London

Brompton, London ranks 25,375th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Valsad district, Charlton, Hertfordshire, and Garbów. Memorable people born in Brompton, London include Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning. Memorable people who died in Brompton, London include Susannah York, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and William Curtis. Brompton, London has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many actors, and companions. Brompton, London is located in United Kingdom.

Brompton, sometimes called Old Brompton, survives in name as a ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex. It lay southeast of the village of Kensington, abutting the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster at the hamlet of Knightsbridge to the northeast, with Little Chelsea to the south. It was bisected by the Fulham Turnpike, the main road westward out of London to the ancient parish of Fulham and on to Putney and Surrey. It saw its first parish church, Holy Trinity Brompton, only in 1829. Today the village has been comprehensively eclipsed by segmentation due principally to railway development culminating in London Underground lines, and its imposition of station names, including Knightsbridge, South Kensington and Gloucester Road as the names of stops during accelerated urbanisation, but lacking any cogent reference to local history and usage or distinctions from neighbouring settlements. Read more on Wikipedia