BROMPTON, a hamlet in the parish of GILLINGHAM,
hundred of CHATHAM and GILLINGHAM, lathe of
AYLESFORD, county of KENT. The population is returned
with'the parish. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. This place lies at the extremity
of the parish, on the brow of a hill overlooking
the royal dock-yard at Chatham, and consists of a considerable
collection of houses, commanding a fine prospect,
and chiefly inhabited by persons connected with
the dock-yard; it lies also within the fortifications called
the Lines, .which were constructed for the defence of
the arsenal, pursuant to an.act passed in 1738.