Description

Brant-Broughton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles W from Leadenham station on the G.W.R., and 8 E from Newark, under which there is a post and money order office; telegraph office, Leadenham. Area of parish, 2990 acres; population, 657. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln ; net yearly value, £493 with residence. The church is a fine building of Ancaster stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It has been thoroughly restored and a new chancel built, and contains a good organ and some very fine specimens of stained glass and oak carving. There are also Wesleyan Reformed and Wesleyan Methodist chapels, and a Friends meeting-house. Bishop Warburton was for a long period rector of this parish.