Broughton, a township, a village, and a parish in Lancashire, adjacent to the Preston and Lancaster railway, 3 miles N of Preston, with a station on the railway jointly with Barton, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Preston. Acreage of township, 2356; population, 610. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester, in the gift of trustees; net value, £190 with residence. The church is dedicated to St John the Baptist. The tower is good and dates from 1533. The nave was rebuilt in 1826, and there are a Roman Catholic chapel and school, and also a .grammar school founded in the reign of Henry VIII. with an endowment producing £120 a year. The parish also contains the hamlets of Church, Ingol Head, Durton, Lightfoot Houses and Sharoe, Haighton, and part of Barton.
