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Broughton Baptist Church, Great Broughton
Broughton Baptist Church
locality:-   Great Broughton
civil parish:-   Broughton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   baptist chapel
locality type:-   chapel
coordinates:-   NY08003157
1Km square:-   NY0831
10Km square:-   NY03


photograph
BPT36.jpg (taken 22.10.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 2) 
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.
"Baptist Chapel (Endowed) / Grave Yard"

notes:-  
Established by a colonel of Oliver Cromwell's army, 1648, when his troops were stationed here during the siege of Cockermouth Castle.

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