Broughton, Huntingdonshire
Historical Description
Broughton, a parish in Huntingdonshire, 4 miles W of Warboys station on the G.E.R., and 5 NE of Huntingdon, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Warboys. Acreage, 2372; population, 301. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, about £220 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1888-89, has a very interesting Early English double piscina and an Early Norman font. There is also a Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Huntingdonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Broughton All Saints | |
Hundred | Hurstingstone | |
Poor Law union | St. Ives |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Cemeteries
A cemetery of half an acre was opened in 1900 at a cost of £200.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1571.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints, standing nearly in the centre of the village, consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower, with broad spire, containing 4 bells, which were rehung and restored in 1901; the spire was restored in 1910: there is an Early English double piscina of rather remarkable character, a font of Early Norman date and a very fine west window, and a Decorated window of three lights at the east end: on the north side of the chancel is a monument to the Rev. Robert Hudson, upwards of 61 years rector of the parish: the church was restored in 1845, when the chancel was new roofed and a vestry built at a cost of £300: during 1888-9 the nave was restored and the interior re-seated in oak, and various repairs effected at a total cost of about £600: in 1907 the south aisle was re-roofed and restored. In 1892, during further restoration of the interior, a mural painting of early 15th century date was discovered, extending across the top of the chancel arch: in 1897 a brass was placed in the chancel to Alan Brooke Johnston by his friends at Cambridge University: there are 250 sittings.
Baptist
Baptist chapel
There is a Baptist chapel, erected by Benjamin How, sen. in 1861.
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 Broughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broughton (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of 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)