Description
Broughton, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands near to the Roman road from Winchester to Salisbury, probably on the site of the station Brigis or Brige, near the river Anton, and 3 miles from Horsebridge station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockbridge (S.O.) The parish includes also the tithing of Frenchmoor and the hamlet of Pittleworth. Acreage, 345; population of the civil parish, 842; of the ecclesiastical, with Bossington, 986. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bossington, in the diocese of Winchester; joint net value, £900 with residence. The church is good, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
