BROMPTON, a hamlet in,the parish of KENSINGTON,
Kensington division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE,.
county of MIDDLESEX, 1 mile (S. W. by W.)
from Hyde-Park Corner. The population is returned
with the parish. Numerous dwelling-houses have been
erected here within the last few years: it is lighted
with gas, and supplied with water by the Chelsea Water
Works- Company. A church, dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, and intended as a district church for Old and
New Brompton and Little Chelsea, -was built in 1828,
partly by a grant of £5000 from the parliamentary
commissioners: it is a handsome structure in the later
style of English architecture, with a square embattled
tower at the west end, and contains one thousand five
hundred and five sittings, of which six hundred and six
are free: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Middlesex, concurrently with the Consistorial
Court of the Bishop of London, and diocese of
London, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kensington.
A chapel of ease was erected here in 1769. There
is a .meeting-house for Independents. A school for the
education of one hundred boys was established in 1828,
on the plan of those at Chatham, Devonport, and the
Scotch public schools. Here was formerly a botanical
garden, supported by subscription, but it has been converted
into a nursery-ground, in common with a considerable
portion of the ground in the immediate vicinity of
Hale House, commonly called Cromwell House, and
erroneously supposed to have been the residence of the
Protector, is an ancient mansion belonging to the Earl
of Harrington.