Broughton
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BROUGHTON, a township-chapelry and a subdistrict, in Salford district, Lancashire; on the river Irwell, near the Bolton railway, in the parish and within the borough of Manchester. It includes a suburb of Manchester, called Higher Broughton and Lower Broughton, communicating with Salford by Broughton bridge; includes also the village of Kersall; and has a post office, of the name of Broughton-Road, under Manchester. Acres, 960. Real property, £66,430. Pop., 9,885. Houses, 1,789. Broughton Hall belonged formerly to the Chethams and the Stanleys; was partly burnt in 1847; and belongs now to Col. Clowes. Higher Broughton and Lower Broughton contain several streets, straight, airy, and crossing one another at right angles; and the two are conjoint. The chapelry was constituted in 1840. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £400.* Patrons, Trustees. There are six dissenting chapels; one of them built in 1869, at a cost of £6,000. The subdistrict is conterminate with the chapelry.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Salford library.Cemeteries
- St John the Evangelist, Murray Street, Church of England, Higher Broughton
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Broughton.Church History
Church Records
- Holy Mother of Zyrovicy, Chapel Rd, Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, Kersal
- St James, Great Cheetham St East, Church of England, Higher Broughton
- St John the Evangelist, Murray Street, Church of England, Higher Broughton
- St Clement, Broughton Lane, Church of England, Lower Broughton
- The Ascension, Clarence Street, Church of England, Lower Broughton
- St Aidan, Littleton Road, Church of England, Lower Kersal
- Gt Clowes Street, Church of the Nazarene, Lower Brougton
- Bury New Road, Congregational
- Broughton Park Congregational, Upper Park Rd, Congregational
- Water Park Rd, Congregational, Broughton Park
- Church of the Annunciation, Bury New Rd, Greek Orthodox, Higher Broughton
- Kingdom Hall, St John St, Jehovah's Witness, Higher Broughton
- Holy Law South Broughton Congregation, Bury New Road, Jewish
- Manchester Great and New Synagogue, Singleton Road, Jewish, Broughton Park
- Alexandra Gardens, Methodist
- Salem, Bury New Road, Methodist New Connexion
- Salem, Wellington St, Methodist New Connexion, Higher Broughton
- Singleton Rd, Presbyterian, Kersal
- Camp St/Gt Clowes St, Primitive Methodist
- St Thomas of Canterbury, Gt Cheetham St East, Roman Catholic, Higher Broughton
- Our Lady of Dolours, Bury New Road, Roman Catholic, Kersal
- St Philip Benizi, Northallerton Rd, Roman Catholic, Kersal
- St Boniface, St Boniface Road, Roman Catholic, Lower Broughton
- Gt Clowes Street, Union Baptist, Lower Brougton
- Leicester Road, United Methodist Free Church
- Gt Cheetham St West, Wesleyan Methodist, Higher Broughton
- Chapel Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Kersal
- Sussex St, Wesleyan Methodist, Lower Brougton
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