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Welcome to the Website of Brompton on Swale.
Here you will find a wealth of information about the Village for both residents and visitors. The Village is located to the east of Richmond, attractively placed, as the name implies, along the northern bank of the River Swale, reputedly the fastest flowing river in the country.
The village is named in the ‘Domesday Book’ and the name is believed to be derived from ‘broom’ (the Shrub) and ‘tun’ an old English word for farmstead or village. The old Village is medieval, a wide street with rows of houses either side, originally of timber and thatch, but from the 17th Century constructed of stone and river cobbles.
Entry in the Doomsday Book reads (Translated from the abbreviated Latin):
“In Brompton-on-Swale are 6 carucates to the geld and there could be 10 ploughs. Thor had I manor there. Now Enisant has 2 ploughs there and 14 villans and 2 bordars with 5 ploughs and 1 mill, there are 8 acres of meadow. The whole is 1 league long and 1 broad. TRE worth 40s; now 32s”
The Domesday Book was commissioned by William the Conqueror in December 1085. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees, which was then the border with Scotland.
