The suburb has a historical association with the civil parish of Brampton in North East Derbyshire district, which is still outside the town.

The Brampton parish boundary lay by the River Hipper to within a mile of Chesterfield centre, and around which began to develop many varied industries, concerns included iron foundries, potteries, tobacco manufacturing, woollen cloth production, bobbin making, brewing pillbox making and lint manufacture, these works and surrounding residential areas becoming conterminous with the town and necessitating a new parish church, St Thomas's built in 1832.

A number of new retail developments, such as 131 Chatsworth Road and the Hanger, have sprung up alongside well-established, traditional family businesses.

Plans for regeneration of the former Walton Works site, which includes retail and housing development, is due to be considered by Chesterfield Borough Council in early 2013.

By the 1950s, the company's packaging and dressings factories covered a large area by the River Hipper in Brampton, with a workforce of thousands of employees.