Description
Broughton, Great, a township and a parish in Cumberland. The township lies on the river Derwent adjacent to the Cockermouth and Workiugton railway, on which it has a station. It has a post and money order office under Cockermouth, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 2073; population of township, 1447 ; of ecclesiastical parish, 2290. The parish is more extensive than the township, and includes Little Broughton and Eibston. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £149 with residence. The church is new. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Friends' meeting-house; also an endowed school and almshouses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
