Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Brant-Broughton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles W from Leadenham station on the G.W.R., and 8 E from Newark, under which there is a post and money order office; telegraph office, Leadenham. Area of parish, 2990 acres; population, 657. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £493 with residence. The church is a fine building of Ancaster stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It has been thoroughly restored and a new chancel built, and contains a good organ and some very fine specimens of stained glass and oak carving. There are also Wesleyan Reformed and Wesleyan Methodist chapels, and a Friends meeting-house. Bishop Warburton was for a long period rector of this parish.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Brant Broughton St. Helen | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Brant Broughton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1710-1887 | 1760-1804 | 1712-1911 | 1710-1877 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Brant Broughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broughton, Brant (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Brant Broughton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: