Brampton, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, on the river Ouse, 1 mile N of Buckden station on the M.R., and 1 1/2 WSW of Huntingdon, under which there is a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 3557; population, 1075. Brampton Park belonged to Sir John Barnard, who sat in the Parliament which restored Charles II. Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II. and James II., frequently visited his uncle, who resided in Brampton. There are many allusions to these visits in his diary. It became the scat of the Sparrow family early in the present century. The mansion was mostly rebuilt in 1820, and contains some fine family paintings. It is now the property of the Duke of Manchester. The manor house, another important residence, was rebuilt in 1877. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is Later English, in very good condition, and has a monument to Sir John Barnard. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1889, a united chapel for Baptists and Congregationalists, and a Roman Catholic College.
