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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


photograph
BVS15.jpg (taken 24.11.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 6 12) 
placename:-  Broughton in Furness
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:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.  "Broughton"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
circle 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
circle, building, tower; Lancashire 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jenner 1643
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
circle 

evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Broughton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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"Broughton"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) 
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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MRD3Cm.jpg
"Broughto~"
circle; village or town 
item:-  JandMN : 339
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Broughton
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Broughton"
Circle. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Broughton
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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"Broughton"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Broughton
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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"BROUGHTON"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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Page 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."

evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Broughton
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 319-320  "Broughton"
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
blocks, upright lowercase text; town 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Broughton in Furness
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.
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"Broughton in Furness 281½"
village or other place; distance from London 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old text:- Capper 1808
placename:-  Broughton-in-Furnace
item:-  populationmarket
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.
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"..."
"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."
"..."

evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Broughton
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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"Broughton"
town 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"BROUGHTON"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Broughton
item:-  geology
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.
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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;"

evidence:-   old map:- Perrot 1823
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
circle; town 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.45
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evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824 (Lan) 
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"BROUGHTON"
street map; labelled in block caps for a market town. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1824
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"BROUGHTON"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Broughton
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.
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"Broughton"
blocks, settlement, and a cross, a church 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  flowerprimrosePrimula vulgaris
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, primroses near Broughton in Furness, Broughton West, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS76
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 Post Office maps


photograph
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

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.
On 1 August a Reading the Charter ceremony commemorates a charter for a fair granted by Elizabeth I.

period:-   17th century, late
item:-   chartermarket charter
Market charter granted late 17th century, Thursday market.

places:-  
SD21208760 Aitken House (Broughton West) L
SD21048750 bench mark, SD21048750 (Broughton West)
SD21008752 boundary stone, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD21148728 Broughton Goods Junction (Broughton West)
SD21158752 Broughton House (Broughton West) L
SD21238741 Broughton in Furness Station (Broughton West)
SD21228747 Broughton Station (Broughton West)
SD21178752 Broughton Village Bakery (Broughton West)
SD21178756 Broughton in Furness: Griffin Street, 1 (Broughton West)
SD21218761 NFU Mutual (Broughton West)
SD21208761 Square Cafe, The (Broughton West)
SD2187 Steam Bus Co, The (Broughton West)
SD21198751 Melvile Tyson green grocer and butcher (Broughton West)
SD21248745 Broughton Mart (Broughton West)
SD21398791 Broughton Tower (Broughton West) L
SD21178753 Cobblers Cottage (Broughton West) L
SD21198734 Broughton in Furness Engine Shed (Broughton West) gone
SD21228757 George III Monument, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West) L
SD21198759 Grovelands (Broughton West) L
SD20948755 house, Broughton in Furness (2) (Broughton West)
SD21208756 Langholme House (Broughton West) L
SD21238757 Manor Arms (Broughton West)
SD21248753 Mountain Centre, The (Broughton West)
SD21048751 Old School, The (Broughton West)
SD20928757 Old Syke House (Broughton West) L
SD21328749 Parsonage Room, The (Broughton West)
SD21008751 Peel House (Broughton West)
SD21208763 police station, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD21248750 post box, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD21248750 Broughton Post Office (Broughton West)
SD21348752 railway bridge, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West) gone
SD21468780 stile, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD21228757 stocks, Boughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD21028751 stop cock, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD21188757 stop cock, Broughton in Furness (2) (Broughton West)
SD21238753 Brought Town Hall (Broughton West) L
SD21188745 Victory Hall (Broughton West)
SD20968739 war memorial, Broughton in Furness (Broughton West)
SD20948738 St Mary's Church (Broughton West) L
SD2187 King's Head Inn (Broughton West)
SD21138748 Old King's Head (Broughton West) L
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