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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  WEST BROMPTON	Manor	PATRICK BROMPTON Tn/AP/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WEST BROMPTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	West, Drayton, Earnshill, Eastham, Hatch-Beauchamp, Hinton-St. George, East Lambrook-in-Kingsbury-Episcopi, Puckington, Seaborough, Seavington-St. Michael, Shepton-Beauchamp, Staple-Fitzpaine-with-Bickenhall, Stocklinch-Magdalene, Stocklinch-Ottersea, South Brayton, Wayford, White-Staunton, and Winsham; the vicarages of Ashill, Chard, Combe-St. Nicholas, Curry-Rivell, Fivehead, Ilminster, Ilton, Isle-Abbots, Isle Brewers, Kingsbury-Episcopi, White-Lackington, Meriott, Misterton, South Petherton, and Swell; and the p. curacies of Barrington, Broadway, Tatworth, Chillington, Crewkerne, Cudworth, Courland, Dinnington, Hambridge, Kingstone, Knowle, Lopen, and Seavington-St. Mary. The deanery of Dunster contains the rectories of Brompton	Imperial
  BROMPTON	London Middlesex	Brompton, West Brompton and Onslow square; and all are vicarages in the diocese of London. Value of Trinity vicarage, £639; of West	Imperial
  Brompton, West	Middlesex	Brompton, West , eccl. dists. (St Luke and St Mary) and ry. sta., Kensington par., Middlesex, pop. 5483 and 4684.	Bartholomew
  CHELSEA	London Middlesex	Brompton, London, SW., a police station, gas-works, a workhouse, a house for patients leaving the Brompton Consumption Hospital, a training-college and chapel for schoolmasters, a training college for schoolmistresses, a grammar-school, seven national schools, fifteen schools supported by religious bodies, two ragged schools, two lunatic asylums, three military schools, and above all the royal hospital for old and disabled soldiers. " Go with old Thames, view Chelsea's glorious pile, And ask the shattered hero whence his smile. Hail, noblest structure, imaged in the wave, A nation's grateful tribute to the brave." This great institution stands near	Imperial
  GILLINGHAM	Kent	west square tower; once possessed, in a niche over the porch, an image of "Our Lady of Gillingham, " much visited by pilgrims; and was variously restored and rebuilt, so as to be completely altered, in 1869. The vicarage of Brompton	Imperial
  HULL, or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL	Yorkshire	HULL , or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL, a large seaporttown, in E. R. Yorkshire; at the influx of the river Hull to	Imperial
  KENSINGTON	Middlesex	Brompton, and between Hyde Park and Hammersmith, 4 miles W by S of St. Paul's; is connected, by Knightsbridge suburb, with the main body of the metropolis; has stations on the railways, post offices‡ and postal letter boxes under London W; and contains the station of the T division of the metropolitan police, the West	Imperial
  LEYBURN	Yorkshire	Brompton parish, three of Thornton-Watlass, one of Hornby, and one of Bedale. Acres, 41,847. Pop., 5,875. Houses, 1,187.—The district comprehends also the sub-district of Middleman, containing the parishes of Middleham, Coverhiam, East Witton, and West	Imperial
  London	Essex Kent Middlesex Surrey	London , the capital of England, and the principal town of the British Empire, on river Thames, mostly in Middlesex, but	Bartholomew
  LONDON	London London	Brompton, Montpellier, Trevor, Lowndes, and Cadogan-squares; in Belgravia, Eaton, Chester, Ebury, Eccleston, Warwick, and St. George's-squares; in Chelsea, Sloan, Trafalgar, and Oakley-squares; in Lambeth, St. Mary and West	Imperial
  LONDON (WEST) RAILWAY EXTENSION WORKS	London	West End of London and Crystal Palace near the Clapham station, and with the Southwestern near the junction of its Richmond branch with its main line; a branch from Battersea to the Southwestern; a branch, 27 chains long, from the main line near the basin of the Imperial Gas company to the Thames near the mouth of the Kensington canal; a dock in the parish of Fulham; and a division of part of the Kensington canal, with discontinuance of the part N of King's-road, Chelsea. A station for it at West Brompton	Imperial
  NORTHALLERTON	Yorkshire	Brompton and High Worsall are separate benefices. The sub-district excludes Deighton and High Worsall chapelries; and includes the parishes of Kirby-Sigston, Ainderby-Steeple, Danby-Wiske, and Great Langton, five townships and a chapelry of Leake, three townships of Osmotherley, the township of Over-Silton, two townships of North Otterington, two townships of Catterick, and the extra-parochial tracts of Lazenby and Cotcliff. Acres, 41, 752. Pop. in 1851, 9, 556; in 1861, 9, 222. Houses, 2,035. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Appleton-upon-Wiske, containing the parishes of West	Imperial
  West Brompton	Middlesex	West Brompton , dist. and ry. sta., Kensington par., Middlesex, pop. 10,167; the sta. is 1 mile SE. of Kensington	Bartholomew

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