Brompton Ralph

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.084494
longitude= -3.307720
official_name= Brompton Ralph
population= 245cite web |url=http://www.westsomersetonline.gov.uk/minutes/Agenda%20item%207%208.01.07.pdf |title=Parish Population Estimates for 2002 |accessdate=2007-12-05 |format=PDF |work=West Somerset ]
shire_district= West Somerset
shire_county = Somerset
region= South West England
constituency_westminster= Bridgwater
post_town= Williton
postcode_district = TA4
postcode_area= TA
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= ST085325

Brompton Ralph is a village and civil parish in the West Somerset district of Somerset, England, about convert|11|mi|km|0|lk=on west of Taunton, and convert|3|mi|km|0 north of Wiveliscombe. It is in a wooded district at the eastern extremity of the Brendon Hills. According to the 2002 population estimates it had a population of 245.

The name Brompton, or Brunanton as it was called in the Century is probably a corruption of Brendon, meaning the farmhouse by the Brendons. [cite web |url=http://www.lhi.org.uk/docs/Brompton_Ralph.pdf |title=Brompton Ralph Heritage Project |accessdate=2007-12-05 |format=PDF |work=Local Heritage Initiative ]

St Mary's Church has a 15th century tower and south door. The nave was refenestrated and the vestry added in the 16th century, and the church was partly rebuilt about 1740. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building. [cite web | title=Church of St Mary | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=265590 | accessdate=2007-12-05]

The manor farmhouse, which is also II* listed dates from the mid 17th century. [cite web | title=Manor Farmhouse | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=265588 | accessdate=2007-12-05]

Within the parish, are vestiges of an encampment believed to have been constructed by the Romans. [cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50834#s21 |title=Brompton Ralph |accessdate=2007-12-05 |format= |work=British History Online ]

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