COMPTON, a hamlet in that part of the parish
of ASHBOURN which is in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
though locally in the hundred of
Appletree, county of DERBY,  a mile (S.E.) from
Ashbourn. The population is returned with the chapelry
of Clifton. A chapel, called Sion chapel, with a house
for the minister, and six almshouses attached to it, and
under the direction of the trustees of the Countess of
Huntingdon's college, were built here by John Cooper,
who, by deed in 1801, endowed them with £4500 three
per cent, reduced annuities, yielding now a dividend of
about £ 130 per annum, of which sum, £68 isipaid to
the minister, and £10. 10. to each of the six inmates of
the hospital, who, together with the minister, are appointed
by the trustees: the premises were substantially
repaired in 1824.