Broughton Sulney
"Broughton-Sulney, also known as Over-Broughton, 12 miles south-south-east of
Nottingham, is a pleasant village, seated upon a declivity on the
Melton-Mowbray Road, near the Leicestershire border, and at the foot of the
Nottinghamshire Wolds, where the Roman Fosseway enters the county. The parish
was enclosed about eighty years ago, and contains 394 inhabitants, and about
1,800 acres of clay land, which belongs principally to Thomas D. Hall Esq.,
William Brown, William Brett, Thomas and William Cross, and several other small
freeholders, the former of whom is lord of the manor. At the enclosure, 240
acres were allotted to the rector in lieu of tithes.
The manor was anciently called Brocton, from its Norman owners. It afterwards
passed to Alured de Sulene, from whom it received the name of Broughton-Sulney.
It is sometimes called Over-Broughton, to distinguish it from Nether-Broughton,
in Leicestershire.
The church has a nave, side aisles and a low tower with three bells. In the
chancel are marble tablets to the memory of Mrs Burrell and Samuel Wright Esq.,
who died in 1839, and in the body are several belonging to the Brett family.
The rectory, valued in the King's books at £11 9s 4½d, is in the
patronage of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, of Campsall in Yorkshire. The Rev. Joseph Burrell is the incumbent. The General Baptists have had a chapel in the village since 1795. At the end of the village is an ancient cross, and near the rectory house is Woundheal Spring, so called from its supposed medicinal virtues."
[White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853]
- The parish was in the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3296 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to St. Luke. The date of original construction is unknown. Portions, like the porch, date to 1733.
- Parish registers exist from 1571.
- The national grid reference is SK 6726.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey "Explorer" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The parish is listed under "Upper Broughton", "Over Broughton", "Broughton Sulney", and "Broughton Solney" in various records.
- For governance, the parish was in the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the Southern division of the county.
- After the Poor Law reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Melton Mobray Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Population |
| 1801 |
230 |
| 1851 |
394 |
| 1871 |
370 |
| 1881 |
327 |
| 1901 |
323 |
- A Board School for the united parishes of Broughton Solney & Nether Broughton was built of red brick and could house 150 children.
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[Last updated: 31-January-2005 - Louis R. Mills]
