CHURCH BROUGHTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
  
  
• The church was fully restored in 1885-86.
  
  
• The church seats 250.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538 for all entries.
  
  
• Marriages at Church Broughton, 1538-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1828.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel

"CHURCH BROUGHTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 10 miles to the W. of Derby. It is situated on a branch of the river Dove, and contains the township of Sapperton. The North Staffordshire railway passes within a short distance. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, worth £228, in the patronage of B. Broadhurst, Esq."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

The branch of the River Dove, mentioned above, is the Broughton brook.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Church Broughton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Church Broughton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial inside St. Michael's Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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