Description
Broughton, a parish in Huntingdonshire, 4 miles W of Warboys station on the G.E.R., and 5 NE of Huntingdon, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Warboys. Acreage, 2372; population, 301. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, about £220 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1888-89, has a very interesting Early English double piscina and an Early Norman font. There is also a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
