Broughton West

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Broughton West
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Broughton in Furness
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Broughton West
Location within Cumbria
Population925 (Parish, 2021) [1]
OS grid reference SD2187
Civil parish
  • Broughton West
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BROUGHTON IN FURNESS
Postcode district LA20
Dialling code 01229
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Cumbria
54°17′56″N3°11′13″W / 54.299°N 3.187°W / 54.299; -3.187

Broughton West is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is based around the small town of Broughton-in-Furness, for which Broughton West was historically an alternative name. The parish also includes the small village of Foxfield, and the hamlets of Bank End, Lower Hawthwaite and Broughton Mills.

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History

Broughton was historically a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Ireleth, which formed part of the Lonsdale Hundred of Lancashire. [2] The township was known as "Broughton West" or "Broughton-in-Furness", to distinguish it from the other township in Lonsdale Hundred called Broughton, 14 miles (23 km) to the east, which was also known as Broughton-in-Cartmel or Broughton East. [3] [4] St Mary Magdalene's Church at Broughton-in-Furness, although dating back to at least the 12th century, [5] was a chapel of ease to St Cuthbert's Church at Kirkby Ireleth until 1870, when an ecclesiastical parish of Broughton-in-Furness was created. [6]

The township took on civil functions under the poor laws from the 17th century onwards. [7] As such, the township also became a civil parish in 1866, when the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws. [8] Whereas the name Broughton-in-Furness was used for the ecclesiastical parish and by the General Post Office for postal addresses, the civil parish used the Broughton West variant of the name. [6]

When elected parish and district councils were created under the Local Government Act 1894, Broughton West was given a parish council and included in the Ulverston Rural District, which was renamed North Lonsdale Rural District in 1960. [2] North Lonsdale Rural District was abolished in 1974, and Broughton West became part of the South Lakeland district in the new county of Cumbria. [9] [10] Broughton West ceased to have its own parish council in 1976, when it was grouped with the neighbouring parishes of Angerton and Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite under Duddon Parish Council. [11] South Lakeland was abolished in 2023 when the new Westmorland and Furness Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area. [12]

Governance

Victory Hall, Station Road, Broughton-in-Furness: Meeting place of Duddon Parish Council Victory Hall, Broughton in Furness - geograph.org.uk - 452188.jpg
Victory Hall, Station Road, Broughton-in-Furness: Meeting place of Duddon Parish Council

There are two tiers of local government covering Broughton West, at parish and unitary authority level: Duddon Parish Council and Westmorland and Furness Council. The parish council is a grouped parish council covering the three parishes of Broughton West, Angerton and Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite. [11] The parish council meets at the Victory Hall on Station Road in Broughton-in-Furness. [13]

Demography

At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 925. [1] The population had been 954 at the 2001 census, [14] and 912 at the 2011 census. [15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual community data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. 1 2 "Broughton West Civil Parish / Chapelry". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "Lancashire Sheet VI". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Index to the London Gazette 1830–1883. 1885. p. 264. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Mary Magdalene (Grade II) (1086818)". National Heritage List for England .
  6. 1 2 Youngs, Frederic (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume II. Royal Historical Society. p. 153. ISBN   0 86193 127 0.
  7. ↑ Higginbotham, Peter. "Ulverston Workhouse". The Workhouse. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  8. ↑ Youngs, Frederic (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume II, Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. xv. ISBN   0861931270.
  9. ↑ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 1972/2039, retrieved 3 March 2023
  10. ↑ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 1973/551, retrieved 3 March 2023
  11. 1 2 "Duddon Parish Council" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  12. ↑ "The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2022/331, retrieved 24 January 2024
  13. ↑ "Meetings". Duddon Parish Council. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  14. ↑ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Broughton West Parish (16UG008)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  15. ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Broughton West Parish (E04002591)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 26 April 2021.


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