BROMPTON, a chapelry in the parish of NORTH ALLERTON, wapentake of ALLERTONSHIRE, North riding of the county of YORK, half a mile (N.N.E.) from North Allerton, containing 1223 inhabitants. There are places of worship for Primitive -and Wesleyan Methodists. Here is an extensive linen-manufactory; and in the chapelry is Standard Hill, where the memorable battle of the Standard was fought, being thus named from a large banner having been placed on a lofty pole, with a silver crucifix on the, summit, which was fixed on a wagon and carried with the troops.