Broughton Mills Explained

Type:Hamlet
Country:England
Static Image:The Blacksmiths Arms, Broughton Mills - geograph.org.uk - 127271.jpg
Static Image Caption:The Blacksmiths Arms, Broughton Mills
Coordinates:54.3°N -3.2°W
Official Name:Broughton Mills
Civil Parish:Broughton West
Shire District:South Lakeland
Shire County:Cumbria
Region:North West England
Constituency Westminster:Barrow and Furness
Post Town:BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS
Postcode District:LA20
Postcode Area:LA
Dial Code:01229
Os Grid Reference:SD2290
Pushpin Map:United Kingdom South Lakeland
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in South Lakeland

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.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Davidson, Ian. More Like London Every Day. Long House Books. 2010. 978-0-9556437-2-9.