Jollie described Brampton as follows:

A market town, containing about 1300 inhabitants. No manufactory of much extent has hitherto been carried on here; but cotton and several other articles are manufactured here on a small scale. This town chiefly consists of one main street, which is tolerably built; and lately, some good houses, and a commodious inn, have been erected. Its principal support is the weekly market, which is well supplied with corn and other provisions. A public brewery, established several years ago, adds a little to its consequence and its population. The Earl of Carlisle has made a railed waggon-way from his collieries on Tisdale-fell to this town, which not only supplies the inhabitants with the necessary article of coal at a lower rate, but has tended to increase trade by inducing manufacturers to settle here … Brampton is distant from Carlisle 9½ miles.

The principal inns included the Howard Arms, where the post office was kept by a Mr Bell; the White Lion by Mrs Maxwell; and the Bush by Mrs Bell. Business, trades and occupations included a blacksmith, bookseller, braziers, breeches-maker, butcher, cabinet maker, china merchant, clock and watchmaker, clogger, cooper, currier, drapers, druggist, dyers, farmers, flax dresser, grocers, hair dresser, hatters, innkeepers, ironmongers, joiners, milliners, midwife, nail-makers, painter, parish clerk, saddlers, schoolmaster, boot and shoemakers, skinner, solicitor, spirit merchant, stay maker, surgeon, tallow chandlers, tanner, and whitesmith.

Pigot’s 1828-29 directory offers some additional information:

The town is long and straggling, of considerable antiquity … The working class here are chiefly employed in weaving checks, ginghams, &c for the manufacturing houses in Carlisle, and spinning and weaving for domestic uses. The church is a neat stone building, and has lately been repaired at considerable expense, when a square tower was added to it … Here are also three dissenting chapels and a hospital for six poor men … The market day is on Wednesday, which is well supplied with corn and provisions of all sorts, woollens, drapery, &c … In 1821 the population of the whole parish of Brampton was 2921 of which 2450 were in the township.

Francis Jollie, Cumberland Guide and Directory containing a descriptive tour through the county (Carlisle: F. Jollie and Sons, 1811)

Pigot and Co., National Commercial Directory [Part 1: Cheshire – Northumberland] for 1828–29 (London and Manchester: J. Pigot and Co., 1828)