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JNugent · September 29th 06, 03:50 PM posted to uk.legal,uk.transport,uk.transport.london

wrote:

Ian F. wrote:

There's an oratory, a cemetery and a road all called Brompton, but I've
never heard anyone refer to an area called Brompton, and I've lived in
south London for over 50 years.

Have you read Vanity Fair? IIRC Amelia Sedley's parents have a cottage
"in the country" at Brompton, to which she retires after George Osborne
dies.

Patrick

Even at the time of the Battle of Waterloo, Brompton/Knightsbridge would
probably have not been described as "in the country". There are several
"Bromptons" in southern England, including one in Kent which was familiar
to Dickens.