East Broughton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Broughton, East, or Broughton-Field, a township and a chapelry, formed into a separate parish in 1875 from the parish of Cartmel, in Lancashire, which includes the hamlets of Aynsome, Field-Broughton, Wood-Broughton, and Grange, 3½ miles N of Cartmel railway station, and 9 NE of Ulverstone. Post town, Carnforth. Acreage, 3425; population, 1743. Broughton Grove, Broughton Hall, and Broughton Lodge are chief residences. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £241 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire and three other trustees. The church is plain.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Cartmel | |
Hundred | Lonsdale north of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Ulverston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Broughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broughton, East)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: