CHURCH BROUGHTON, Derbyshire
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]
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Church Records
- 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.
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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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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).