Brompton
Brompton is a suburban village situated between the town centres of Gillingham and Chatham, lying adjacent to Chatham Dockyard in Medway, Kent, England. Its name means "a farmstead where broom grows" — broom is a small yellow flowering shrub.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Brompton, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Royal Engineers Museum and Brompton Barracks Gymnasium.
Royal Engineers Museum
Museum
Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Royal Engineers Museum is a military engineering museum and library in Gillingham, Kent. It tells the story of the Corps of Royal Engineers and British military engineering in general.
Brompton Barracks Gymnasium
Historic building
Brompton Barracks Gymnasium is a historic military gymnasium at Brompton Barracks in Gillingham, Kent, England. The building was completed in 1863 for the Corps of Royal Engineers and is one of the earliest surviving British Army gymnasia.
Medway Park Sports Centre
Sports venue
Medway Park Sports Centre, formerly known as The Black Lion Leisure Centre, is a prominent sports facility located in Gillingham, Medway, England. Opened on 14 December 1973 by Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a sub-four-minute mile, the centre has undergone significant transformations over the decades.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gillingham and Chatham.
Gillingham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gillingham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Chatham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chatham is a historic maritime town in the English county of Kent, on the River Medway. Steeped in naval heritage, it offers a mix of cultural, outdoor, and family-friendly activities.
Rochester Riverside
Locality
Rochester Riverside is a large-scale urban regeneration district located on a 74-acre brownfield site between the River Medway and the railway line in Rochester, Kent, England.
Brompton
- Category: locality
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.39188° or 51° 23′ 31″ northLongitude
0.53709° or 0° 32′ 14″ eastElevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BMPOpen location code
9F329GRP+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 191965657OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2654585Wikidata ID
Q4973747
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Brompton” goes by many names.
- French: “Brompton”
- Irish: “Brompton”
- Urdu: “برومپٹن، کینٹ”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Ravelin Building and Moat (disused).
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brompton”. Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.