Church Broughton is a village and

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, to the west of

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. It has a church ( Saint Michael and All Angels) and a Methodist chapel (1828). Badway Green is a piece of common land within the parish.Commons Registration Act. Reference 208/U/90. 1982. It is an isolated

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surrounded by farmland.

History

In the early 1870s, Church Broughton was described as: :A parish in the district of

Burton-upon-Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In 2011, it had a population of 72,299. The d ...

and county of Derby; 2½ miles NNE of Scropton r. station. It includes the hamlets of Sapperton and Harehill; and has a post office, of the name of Church-Broughton, under Derby. The church is ancient, and was recently repaired. There are a

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chapel, an

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school with £30 a year, and charities £22. Church Broughton used to be part of the ancient Appletree Hundred, or

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. The nearest place to Church Broughton that is mentioned in the

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is Barton, only from the village and with a total population of "31 households (quite large)", "4

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s (land for), 3 lord's plough teams, 7 men's plough teams" and "64 meadow acres, 2 mills and 1 church." The associated lords of different estates in this area in 1066 were Edric of Tissington, Alfheah of Barton, Dunning, Leodmer of Barton and Leofnoth Sterre. There are two cottages next to the church that date from 1711. The local

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used to be a barn; it was given by the

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for school use in 1745. At the time, there were 60 houses in the village. The shop and the far end of Royal Oak Cottage were built around the early 1760s. Occupations of males and females in 1881

Occupations of males and females in 1881

Enclosure movement in Church Broughton

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occurred in Church Broughton in the 18th and 19th centuries; land that had been formerly owned in common by all members of a village became privately owned. This entailed erecting walls, fences and hedges around new enclosed areas. The English government and aristocracy claimed this would allow for better raising of animals and crops, and that large fields could be farmed more productively than individual plots of the common land. Negotiations started in 1758 for Church Broughton to be enclosed in 1775. Farmers within the village bought and sold land from each other. The people who held little or no land but had been allowed to graze their animals on the common land were bought out by wealthier land owners, and then employed for labour. 388 acres were enclosed in 1775; the

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, supplemented by

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, held and the church had . The former RAF Church Broughton is nearby.

Population change

The population of Church Broughton has fluctuated over 264 years, with large increases in population in the 1850s and sudden decreases in the early 1950s. Population has since increased to the present day. Church Broughton population time series 1801 - 2011

Church Broughton population time series 1801 - 2011

Present day

Broughton Heath has a population of 615 residents according to the 2011 census data. Broughton Heath Golf Club is situated in a southeasterly direction from Church Broughton, set over . It was first established in 1998 and is one of the longest 18-hole par 3 golf courses in the country.

Transport

There is one local bus that runs from Boylestone, Church Broughton, and

Scropton Foston and Scropton is a civil parish in the Dove valley in South Derbyshire. It includes the village of Scropton and hamlet of Foston. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 Census was 728 increasing to 854 at the 2011 Census. The Dome ...

John Port Spencer Academy John Port Spencer Academy, formerly known as John Port School, is an academy and secondary school in the village of Etwall, Derbyshire, England.

Etwall Etwall () is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, southwest of Derby on the A50. The population at the 2011 Census was 2,906. Geography Etwall is located between the A516 bypass and the A50 in south Derbyshire. The A516 draws hea ...

only in term times. Pupils from Church Broughton Primary School typically move on to John Port School. The nearest railway station to Church Broughton is Tutbury and Hatton, which is as the crow flies.

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