The village shop sells take-home pizza to finish in your own oven, along with pies, pasties, cakes and sausages drawn from West Country Bakehouse, Glenmore, Exmoor Bakehouse, Jen's Pantry, Kendle Farm and John May Family Butcher. It stands beside the Village Hall, community-owned, with more than 150 shareholder-members. Christine Cherry manages it, helped by her assistant Cameron Cherry and a rota of volunteers.
The shop opened in July 2008, after the old Village Stores and Post Office closed, and began life in the skittle alley of The George. In 2012 it moved into the Village Hall's former snooker room, where it remains, selling local meat and poultry, cheese, pâtés, cold meats, eggs, bacon and sausages alongside the takeaway trade.
The George itself is a 16th-century freehouse, and it is shut. It has been closed long-term since July 2024, with a local campaign trying to reopen it. In the meantime, "Thank George It's Friday" evenings run a temporary bar at the Village Hall — beer, wine and soft drinks — which keeps the idea of the pub alive while the building waits.
Brompton Regis sits just inside Exmoor National Park, in the Brendon Hills, between Haddon Hill and Wimbleball Lake. Rendered-stone cottages cluster around the church, with farmland and wooded valleys falling away to the south and west. Single-track lanes connect the village to the B3190 and B3224; Dulverton, five miles west, is where you go for the nearest pubs, cafés and post office. A community bus, the 678, runs on Thursdays between Dulverton and Minehead and stops at the shop, though seats are few and it is worth booking ahead. The nearest mainline station is Tiverton Parkway, over the Devon border.
The Church of St Mary has a 13th-century tower, with the nave and north aisle rebuilt around 1490. Inside there is a 1625 pulpit, a Perpendicular arcade carved with vine-leaf capitals, a surviving rood stair, and an organ said to be by T. C. Lewis, 1872, in a case dated 1897. Pevsner described that case as a "pretty organ case in the Arts and Crafts style."
The walking starts more or less at the door. The Haddon Hill Explorer route is a mile and a half of wide, mostly level track up to a trig point, about forty minutes, with views over Wimbleball and a fair chance of Exmoor ponies. It is firm enough for a sturdy pushchair or an all-terrain wheelchair, though it turns muddy after rain. There are longer routes through Storridge Woods and around Haddon Hill if you want them.
Wimbleball Lake is to the east, a 530-acre site with miles of footpaths and cycleways and, on the water, kayaking, canoeing, paddleboarding, sailing, archery and high ropes, with equipment hire and instructor-led sessions.
The lake is younger than the valley it fills. Making the reservoir meant drowning part of the Haddeo Valley: Steart Cottage, Bessom Cottage and the telephone exchange were demolished first. In a dry summer the old Bessom Bridge surfaces again.
Haddon Hill has an older history buried in it too. During the Second World War it held a camp of thousands of American troops preparing for D-Day.
The Millennium Green, at the centre of the village, was nearly lost to development. Villagers raised more than £75,000 and did much of the work themselves to save it, and it opened in 2001. There is room for football, fruit trees, a wildlife pond, bug hotels and bird boxes, and a climbing frame put in during 2025. It is still looked after by volunteers.