This is a copy of an article published in The Peak Advertiser , the Peak District's local free newspaper, on 27th October 1997, reproduced by kind permission of its author, Desmond Holden. Variations on this name include Bromehead, Bromet and Brummitt. At first glance it could be very easy to assume that it is based on a nick-name as describing somebody with a great mop of hair. Standing on the 1000 foot contour it now over-looks the Broomhead Reservoir which was constructed out of Ewden Beck, a minor tributary of the River Don which it joins at Wharncliffe.
Access is by secondary roads only, with very steep gradients.
The Map shows it as set in wild moorland with no provision for road traffic. The establishment is of considerable antiquity. Since that Monarch's dates are 1377 to 1399 it follows that anybody who now bears the name and is descended from the original family can trace their ancestry as far back only to a junior member. The meaning of the name presents no problem. Its twigs, when bundled and bound on a stick have provided an instrument for sweeping from the earliest times.