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| Broughton in Furness | ||||
| Broughton | ||||
| civil parish:- | Broughton West (formerly Lancashire) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | locality | |||
| locality type:- | buildings | |||
| locality type:- | market town | |||
| locality type:- | selected place | |||
| coordinates:- | SD21218756 (etc) | |||
| 1Km square:- | SD2187 | |||
| 10Km square:- | SD28 | |||
| latitude; longitude:- | 3d 12.6m W; 54d 16.7m N | |||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 6 12) placename:- Broughton in Furness |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland
and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved
by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645. Sax9SD18.jpg Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church. "Broughton" item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria
etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5
miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595,
edition 1613-16. MER5LanA.jpg "Broughton" circle item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie
Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed,
1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head
Alley, London, 1611-12. SP11SD28.jpg "Broughton" circle, building, tower; Lancashire item:- private collection : 16 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jenner 1643 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Tables of distances with a maps, Westmerland, scale about 16
miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch,
published by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643; published 1643-80. JEN4Sq.jpg "Broughton" circle |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jansson 1646 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie
Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646. JAN3SD28.jpg "Broughton" Buildings and tower. item:- JandMN : 88 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles
to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694. click to enlargeSEL7.jpg "Broughton" circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, England, including Wales, scale
about 27 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel
Swale Awnsham and John Churchil, London, about 1695. click to enlargeMRD3Cm.jpg "Broughto~" circle; village or town item:- JandMN : 339 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1
inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the
Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the
Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715. MD12SD28.jpg "Broughton" Circle, building and tower. item:- JandMN : 90 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1
inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746. SMP2SDE.jpg "Broughton" Circle. item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of
Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards,
scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas
Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John
Bowles, London, 1760. BO18SD18.jpg "Broughton" circle, tower item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784. Ws02SD18.jpg "BROUGHTON" item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 143:- "Broughton, the seat of a family of that name till forfeited t. Henry VII. by sir Thomas Broughton for joining Lambert Simnel. ... It belongs now to the Sawreys and has a considerable market for woollen yarn, and a neat square built by the Sawreys." |
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| evidence:- | road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181
Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802. goto source click to enlargeC38319.jpg page 319-320 "Broughton" item:- JandMN : 228.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, Lancashire, scale about 18 miles to 1 inch, by George
Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published
by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824. click to enlargeGRA1La.jpg "Broughton" blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5
miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by
Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824. click to enlargeGRA1Lk.jpg "Broughton" blocks, upright lowercase text; town item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806 placename:- Broughton in Furness |
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| source data:- | Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10
miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert
H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834. click to enlargeLw18.jpg "Broughton in Furness 281½" village or other place; distance from London item:- private collection : 18.18 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Capper 1808 placename:- Broughton-in-Furnace item:- population; market |
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| source data:- | Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom,
compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published
1808-29. goto source "..." "BROUGHTON-IN-FURNACE, a township and chapelry to the parish of Kirby Irelith, hundred of Lonsdale, Lancaster, 10 miles from Ulverstone, and 280 from London; containing 215 houses and 1005 inhabitants. It is situated near the river Dudden, over which is a bridge into Cumberland, and the river is navigable for small vessels. There is a market for woollen-yarn here." "..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16
miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho,
London, 1810. click to enlargeWL13.jpg "Broughton" town item:- Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to
1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, et al, 1833. OT02SD28.jpg "BROUGHTON" item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) placename:- Broughton item:- geology |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto source Page 158:- "The THIRD division - forming only inferior elevations - commences with a bed of dark-blue or blackish transition limestone, containing here and there a few shells and madrepores, and alternating with a slaty rock of the same colour; the different layers of each being in some places several feet, in others only a few inches in thickness. This limestone crosses the river Duddon near Broughton; passing Broughton Mills it runs in a north-east direction through Torver, by the foot of the Old Man mountain, and appears near Low Yewdale and Yew Tree. Here it makes a considerable slip to the eastward, after which it ranges past the Tarns upon the hills above Borwick Ground; and stretching through Skelwith, it crosses the head of Windermere near Low Wood Inn. Then passing above Dovenest and Skelgill, it traverses the vales of Troutbeck, Kentmere, and Long Sleddale;" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Perrot 1823 placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and Westmoreland ie
Westmorland, scale about 38 miles to 1 inch, by Aristide Michel
Perrot, engraved by Migneret, 1823, published by Etienne Ledoux,
9 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, France, 1824-48. click to enlargePER2.jpg "Broughton" circle; town item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.45 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Greenwood 1824 (Lan) placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map of the County Palatine of Lancashire, scale about 1 inch to
1 mile, surveyed by C Greenwood, drawn by R Creighton, engraved
by S Neele and Son, published by W Fowler and C Greenwood,
Wakefield, Yorkshire and Leicester Square, London, 1818. grw6bnfr.jpg "BROUGHTON" street map; labelled in block caps for a market town. item:- Armitt Library : A1824 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of
Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles
to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R
Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843. FD02SD28.jpg "BROUGHTON" item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Broughton |
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| source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2SD28.jpg "Broughton" blocks, settlement, and a cross, a church item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- flower; primrose; Primula vulgaris |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, primroses near Broughton in Furness, Broughton West,
Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0422.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS76 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BZW28.jpg Painted dial of a longcase clock by:- "W.Bellman / Broughton." William Bellman clockmaker, Broughton in Furness (taken 29.5.2009) courtesy of the Museum of Lakeland Life |
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| hearsay:- |
The square was laid out by the lord of the manor to resemble a London square. The
obelisk commemorates the jubilee of George III, 1810. The fish slabs were where fish
caught in the Duddon were sold. |
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| On 1 August a Reading the Charter ceremony commemorates a charter for a fair granted
by Elizabeth I. |
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| period:- | 17th century, late | |||
| item:- | charter; market charter |
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| Market charter granted late 17th century, Thursday market. |
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