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Broughton Tower, Broughton in Furness
Broughton Tower
locality:-   Broughton in Furness
civil parish:-   Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   tower
locality type:-   park
coordinates:-   SD21398791
1Km square:-   SD2187
10Km square:-   SD28


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BXD74.jpg (taken 24.8.2012)  
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BXD73.jpg (taken 24.8.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 6 12) 
placename:-  Broughton Tower
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.

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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.
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BO18SD18.jpg
outline of fence palings 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
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.
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Ws02SD18.jpg
"Tower"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
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.
image CAM2P143, button  goto source
Page 143:-  "Broughton, the seat of a family of that name till forfeited t. Henry VII. by sir Thomas Broughton for joining Lambert Simnel. He is said to have fallen in the battle of Stoke 1487, but others say he escaped to Witherslack in Westmorland, where he lived long undiscovered among his tenants, and was buried there in the chapel since rebuilt at a considerable distance from the old site by dean Borwick 1664. It belongs now to the Sawreys and has a considerable market for woollen yarn, and a neat square built by the Sawreys."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Broughton Tower Special School
item:-  date stone (1777); date stone (1744); date stone (1837)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BROUGHTON TOWER SPECIAL SCHOOL / / / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75801 / SD2139787917"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATE AND GATE PIERS APPROXIMATELY 67 METRES TO NORTH OF BROUGHTON TOWER / / / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75802 / SD2143187979"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEWAY TO BROUGHTON TOWER / / THE SQUARE / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75835 / SD2123187640"


photograph
BXD75.jpg  Ha ha wall.
(taken 24.8.2012)  
photograph
BMG27.jpg (taken 12.6.2006)  

hearsay:-  
The Broughton Family lived here. The ?last was Sir Thomas Broughton who died at the Battle of Stoke Field, 1487, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.

notes:-  
14th century tower and later hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustrations

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