Church Broughton, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Church-Broughton, a village and parish in Derbyshire, 3 miles from Tutbury station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 10 W by S of Derby. The parish includes the hamlets of Sapperton and Harehill, and has a post and money order office of the name of Church Broughton under Derby; telegraph office, Foston. Acreage, 2216; population of the civil parish, 465; of the ecclesiastical, 537. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £220 with residence. The church is ancient, and was thoroughly restored in 1885-86. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an endowed school with £30 a year, and some charities.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Church Broughton 1538-1812, Derbyshire is available to browse online.

Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.

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 Church Broughton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broughton, Church (St. Michael))
• Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1899

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Church 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 Derbyshire papers online:

• Derby Daily Telegraph
• Derby Mercury
• Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
• Derbyshire Courier