This neighbourhood runs from Brompton Road and Brompton Square to the north, down to Kings Road in the south. To the west of the postcode sector is the South Kensington area, and to the east Knightsbridge and Belgravia. The area can be said to correspond to a portion of Brompton, with a high-income population, though with less grand terraces than nearby Belgravia. The area, particularly to the north, is replete with crescents and curved roads, with semi-circle shaped parks. To the south, the buildings take a more late Victorian nature, with brick-red facades. This area is home to the Spanish Consulate. In between these areas is also an estate around Wiltshire Close, with well-built post-war flats surrounding a children’s play area. The area is largely residential in nature, with its main streets (Kings Road, Brompton Road and Draycott Avenue) populated by pubs and restaurants.

The Brompton area has largely faded from public use these days, perhaps in part due to the closure of Brompton Road underground station back in the interwar period as well as the relative dominance of nearby South Kensington, Knightsbridge and Belgravia. The area’s name, though, goes back to at least 1294, when it was first recorded, and a broom features on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s coat of arms as a sprig of broom. The area was drained in the 16th century and converted into fruit gardens, and in the Victorian era would be laid out in piecemeal into small streets and squares – as opposed to Belgravia to the east, which was developed en masse.

Brompton Square was built between 1821 and 1835, the communal gardens having been laid out at the early stages of the development, and it remains largely unchanged to this day. The square started out originally with the east and west sides, which had narrow frontages; the somewhat grander terraces around the crescent, complete with columns and white facades, were designed a decade later.

Brompton Road and to a lesser extent Walton Street are major roads, with the associated traffic, especially going to and coming from South Kensington and Knightsbridge; it is today actively promoted as a shopping and dining destination. There is also a distinct lack of major grocery stores in the area, though there are a few smaller ones just outside the postcode sector.

There have been several attempts to redevelop the abandoned Brompton Road underground station, from reopening it on the Piccadilly line, to a tourist attraction, to the latest proposal intending to convert it into a residential flat. The former station’s future was however flung back into uncertainty as the current owner of the facilities, a Ukrainian businnessman accused of corruption, has not revealed concrete plans for the site for quite some time now.