Great Broughton, Cumbria
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Great Broughton is a village and former
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
, now in the parish of Broughton, in the
Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...
district, in the ceremonial county of
Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
, England. It caters strongly for visitors. The estimated resident population was 1,823 in 2017.


Location

Great Broughton is west of
Cockermouth Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. The name refers to the town's position by the confluence of the River Cocker into the River Derwent. At the 2021 census, the built u ...
, just north of River Derwent and the
A66 road The A66 is a major road in Northern England, which in part follows the course of the Roman road from Scotch Corner to Penrith. It runs from east of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire to Workington in Cumbria. The road has been progressively ...
, and 4 miles (6.4 km) from the sea at
Flimby Flimby is a coastal village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Maryport, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It was historically in Cumberland. It is included in the Maryport South county divisio ...
. Neighbouring villages are Camerton to the west, Broughton Moor to the north and
Papcastle Papcastle is a village and civil parish in the district of Cumberland in the English county of Cumbria. The village is now effectively a northern extension of Cockermouth, which lies to the south of the River Derwent. It has its own parish cou ...
to the east.


Governance

The village is in the
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of
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. For
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purposes, the village was in the Broughton St Bridget
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of Allerdale Borough Council, which stretched north to Bridekirk and had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,178. Broughton is now part of the Dearham and Broughton Ward of Cumberland Council. The village has its own parish council, Broughton Parish Council, which covers Great & Little Broughton. Great Broughton was formerly a
township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in Bridekirk parish, from 1866 Great Broughton was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 October 1898 to form Broughton and Broughton Moor. In 1891 the parish had a population of 1447.


Amenities and features

The village has a local shop, holiday cottages, a primary school, three pubs and a Royal British Legion branch. There is a 15-room hotel named the ''Broughton Craggs'' at the bottom of the village on the road heading to Cockermouth. Several houses offer bed and breakfast. Great Broughton also borders the village of Little Broughton, which contains both new housing estates and older houses, along with a pub, the ''Sundial''. The churchyard of the
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Christ Church contains a Grade II listed war memorial erected in 1921, bearing the names of 22 servicemen killed in the
First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
and five servicemen and a female civilian killed in the Second. There is a Methodist church in the village, but the congregation is no longer active. A planning application was approved in 2005 to turn the building into a dwelling. Broughton Carnival takes place every July. Until decommissioned in 1992, the RNAD Broughton Moor bordered the top end of the village. The Ministry of Defence police houses remain as South Terrace. The rest of the former RNAD site is still up for tender from its current owners, Cumbria County Council, which purchased it from the Ministry of Defence for a nominal sum in 2007.


Access

The village is on a bus route to Cockermouth. It once had a
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on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway, but it closed to passengers in 1908 and completely in 1921. The nearest station today is at
Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-east of Whitehaven. At the 2021 census the ...
, 7 miles (11 km) away, which has services to Barrow,
Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies outside the Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park. ...
and
Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
. During the floods of November 2009, the main bridge over the River Derwent, giving access to the village from the A66, sustained structural damage and was closed pending a structural report from engineers. The bridge was built in 1832. It re-opened after structural work in early 2010.Report of the damage. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
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See also

* Listed buildings in Broughton, Cumbria


References


External links

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