Broughton Mills
- Broughton West
- South Lakeland
- Cumbria
- North West
- Barrow and Furness
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
References
- ^ 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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