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.
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.