A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BROUGHTON, a village and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The village stands on Ermine-street, probably on the site of a Roman station, near the river Ancholme, and the Grimsby railway, 3 miles NW of Glanford-Brigg; and has a post office under Brigg. The parish includes also the township of Castlethorpe, and the hamlets of Manby and Gokewell. Acres, 6,918. Real property, £10,320. Pop., 1,280. Houses, 285. The property is much subdivided. A nunnery was founded here, in 1185, by William de Alta Ripa. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £824.* Patron, Joseph Dent, Esq. A new church was built in 1868; and there are two Methodist chapels and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Broughton AP/CP Glanford Brigg RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Broughton |
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