Broughton Mills

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Broughton Mills
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Broughton Mills
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Broughton Mills
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS
Postcode district LA20
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54°18′N3°12′W / 54.30°N 03.20°W / 54.30; -03.20 Coordinates: 54°18′N3°12′W / 54.30°N 03.20°W / 54.30; -03.20

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.

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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. [1]

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References

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

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