Brunton Park

[Birdfeeder]

Does anyone out there know how Carlisle United's ground got the name Brunton Park?

[Buenchico]

The 1899 OS map of the area shows that
(a) there was a football ground on the site well before Carlisle United moved in ; and
(b) the name 'Brunton Place' was attached to a nearby group of houses:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/1899Map1540648197.jpg

Going back to the 1863 OS map shows Brunton Place stood on its own, as a small hamlet:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/1863Map1540648259.jpg

The Oxford Names Companion gives the origin of the name 'Brunton' as meaning 'a farmstead by a small stream'.

So it seems that there was originally just a farm to the south-east of the ground's current location, which developed into the hamlet known as Brunton Place. The football ground later took its name from the neighbouring hamlet.

[Birdfeeder]

Thank you Bruenchico for all that information, I knew that the club had changed its name early on but not why the name was Brunton Park or if there was a family of that name in the loacality

[Buenchico]

Thanks for your reply.

It occurs to me that there might have been an intermediate step in the history I attempted to outline. There could have been a local landowner called Brunton (who had an ancestor who'd lived in a farmstead by a small stream, thus giving him that surname), who built a row of houses to accommodate the workers on his estate, with that row of houses becoming known as 'Brunton Place'.

So it's possible that a 'Mr Brunton' might have been involved in the chain of events but it seems certain that he didn't directly give his name to the football ground.

[Birdfeeder]

Thanks again I will carry out further research