Complex sentence: The village of Brampton is generally dispersed either side of the road, although at Brampton crossroads it passes the former Dog public house which closed in 1999 and is now a guesthouse.
Split into simpler sentences: The village of Brampton is dispersed across a wide area either side of the road. At Brampton crossroads it passes the former Dog public house which closed in 1999 and is now a guesthouse.