Broughton Mills

Hamlet in England
  • Broughton West
District
  • South Lakeland
Shire county
  • Cumbria
Region
  • North West
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBROUGHTON-IN-FURNESSPostcode districtLA20Dialling code01229PoliceCumbriaFireCumbriaAmbulanceNorth West UK Parliament
  • Barrow and Furness
List of places
UK
England
Cumbria
54°18′N 3°12′W / 54.30°N 03.20°W / 54.30; -03.20

Broughton Mills is a village in Cumbria, England, located 3.5 kilometres from the larger town of Broughton-in-furness. The village consists of about 40 households, a phonebox (non-functional), church and a pub called the Blacksmiths Arms.

History

Broughton mills was formally the place where the people of Broughton-in-furness came to grind their corn, saw their timber, weave their cloth, malt their barley and burn lime.[1] There was formally a wool mill which later became a bobbin mill, a corn mill and a flax mill built along the River Lickle along with quarries, mines, bloomeries, charcoal burners, joiner's shop and a smithy, hatter, weaver and clogger.[1]

See also

  • iconCumbria portal

References

  1. ^ a b Davidson, Ian (2010). More Like London Every Day. Long House Books. ISBN 978-0-9556437-2-9.

External links

Media related to Broughton Mills at Wikimedia Commons


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