| Brampton | |
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| Town and parish | |
 TheMoot Hall in the market place in Brampton in 2008 | |
  Brampton Location in the formerCity of Carlisle district Show map of the former City of Carlisle district | |
| Population | 4,627 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | NY530609 |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRAMPTON |
| Postcode district | CA8 |
| Dialling code | 016977 (4&5 fig.) / 01697 (6 fig.) |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
| 54°56′27″N2°43′58″W / 54.9409°N 2.7329°W /54.9409; -2.7329 | |
Brampton is amarket town andcivil parish in theCumberland unitary authority ofCumbria, England. It is 9 miles (14 km) east ofCarlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south ofHadrian's Wall.Historically part ofCumberland, it is situated off theA69 road which bypasses it.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by thePre-Raphaelite architectPhilip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by SirEdward Burne-Jones, and executed in theWilliam Morris studio.
The town is thought to have been founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.[3]
The place-name 'Brampton' is first attested inCharter Rolls of 1252, where it appears asBraunton. In theTaxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291 it appears asBrampton. The name derives from theOld English 'Brōm-tūn', meaning "town or settlement wherebroom grew".[4]
Its original church survives a couple of miles away to the west asBrampton Old Church, on the site of aStanegate Roman fort.[5]
The town is overlooked by the large medievalmotte known as The Mote, which is surmounted by a statue ofGeorge Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle.[6]
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by KingHenry III, and became a market town as a result.[7]
During theJacobite rising of 1745,Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie') stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (an antique shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.[8]
TheoctagonalMoot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses thetourist information office, was commissioned byFrederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle in 1817.[9] It replaced a 1648 building which was once used byOliver Cromwell to house prisoners. To the right of its door can be seen the old town ironstocks affixed to the pavement.[10]
The population in 1841 was 2,754 inhabitants.[11]
Brampton was grantedFairtrade status on 6 January 2005, becoming one of the first hundred towns in the UK to be recognised in this way.[12]
In 2011, Brampton became the 66th town in the United Kingdom and the second in Cumbria to gainWalkers are Welcome status.[13]
Brampton railway station, on theNewcastle and Carlisle Railway, which is about a mile outside the town, opened in 1836.[14]
Brampton is in theparliamentary constituency ofCarlisle. Currently Mark Green (former mayor) is running to reclaim his mayoral title after he stepped down in 2023.
Brampton's secondary school is theWilliam Howard School, known as Irthing Valley School until 1980 when it was amalgamated with Brampton's White House School and took on a larger catchment area, with pupils from as far away asAlston andPenrith.
William Howard School was host to 'Brampton Live' every summer, an ever-growing music festival that, after its first appearance in 1995, became the largest folk/roots/world music festival in theNorth of England. Major artists includedthe Levellers,the Waterboys, Egudo Embako,Richard Thompson,Suzanne Vega,Loudon Wainwright III,Altan,Tommy Emmanuel,Seth Lakeman and many others. The last 'Brampton Live' took place in 2009 and has been, to a certain extent, replaced in 2012 by the 'Stepping Stones Festival'[15] organised byMaddy Prior (ofSteeleye Span) held in early May at the Brampton Community Centre.
Local news and television programmes are provided byBBC North East and Cumbria andITV Border. Television signals are received from theCaldbeck TV transmitter.[16] Local radio stations areBBC Radio Cumbria, CRFM - Community Radio Station andGreatest Hits Radio Cumbria & South West Scotland. The town is served by the local newspaper,News and Star.[17]
The Brampton to Carlisle 10 Mile Road Race organised by Border Harriers & Athletic Club is the oldest 10 mile road race in the United Kingdom and is held in November.[18] The first race was completed in 1952. Previous winners includeSteve Cram andRon Hill.
Brampton has a Met Office Weather Station,[19] established in 1999. It records weather data on a daily basis, which is forwarded to the Met Office.[20]
Between 2001 and 2023, the highest temperature recorded was 35.4 °C (95.7 °F) on 19 July 2022 and the lowest was −12.1 °C (10.2 °F) on 3 December 2010.[21]
| Climate data for Brampton, 117m asl, 1991-2020, extremes 2001-2023 | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.1 (57.4) | 17.0 (62.6) | 19.5 (67.1) | 25.7 (78.3) | 27.2 (81.0) | 29.1 (84.4) | 35.4 (95.7) | 31.6 (88.9) | 28.8 (83.8) | 22.5 (72.5) | 18.4 (65.1) | 15.0 (59.0) | 35.4 (95.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) | 5.3 (41.5) | 7.3 (45.1) | 10.4 (50.7) | 13.7 (56.7) | 16.2 (61.2) | 18.0 (64.4) | 17.4 (63.3) | 15.1 (59.2) | 11.3 (52.3) | 7.6 (45.7) | 5.2 (41.4) | 11.0 (51.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.0 (32.0) | -0.0 (32.0) | 0.9 (33.6) | 2.4 (36.3) | 4.9 (40.8) | 7.9 (46.2) | 9.8 (49.6) | 9.8 (49.6) | 7.8 (46.0) | 5.1 (41.2) | 2.4 (36.3) | 0.2 (32.4) | 4.3 (39.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −10.7 (12.7) | −6.4 (20.5) | −8.0 (17.6) | −4.1 (24.6) | −2.2 (28.0) | 1.8 (35.2) | 5.4 (41.7) | 2.5 (36.5) | 0.3 (32.5) | −3.2 (26.2) | −6.1 (21.0) | −12.1 (10.2) | −12.1 (10.2) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 123.6 (4.87) | 99.6 (3.92) | 91.5 (3.60) | 75.7 (2.98) | 78.5 (3.09) | 95.7 (3.77) | 115.0 (4.53) | 127.8 (5.03) | 105.5 (4.15) | 126.9 (5.00) | 125.7 (4.95) | 136.9 (5.39) | 1,302.4 (51.28) |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 34.6 | 61.1 | 96.0 | 156.9 | 187.1 | 155.3 | 161.7 | 164.2 | 125.1 | 74.2 | 53.8 | 25.5 | 1,226.2 |
| Source 1: Met Office[22] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Starlings Roost Weather[23] | |||||||||||||
Geoff Twentyman, a footballer who made over 150 appearances each for bothCarlisle United andLiverpool, was born and brought up in Brampton; as a scout for Liverpool he recommended the likes ofKevin Keegan,John Toshack,Peter Beardsley andJohn Barnes, amongst others, to the managers he worked under. Altogether he spent twenty years as head scout of Liverpool F.C.[24]
Li Yuan-chia (1929–1994) was a notable Chinese artist, poet and curator, and a significant influence on contemporary Chinese art. Born in Guangxi province, he lived the last twenty-six years of his life in Brampton, Cumbria, where he founded the LYC Gallery and Museum, which exhibited his own works and those of other notable artists.
Brampton and Beyond Community Trust is a community-baseddevelopment trust serving Brampton and the surrounding area in north east Cumbria. The Trust is a registered company and a registered charity.[25] The Trust aims to provide accessible, affordable and responsive services for local people and seeks to be self-financing. In 2011, Brampton and Beyond Community Trust formally took over the assets of the former Brampton Community Association, together with responsibility for the operation of the Brampton Community Centre. Subsequently, in 2015 the Trust negotiated the asset transfer of site which Brampton Community Centre occupies from Cumbria County Council making the Trust both the owners and operators of Brampton Community Centre.
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