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Broughton in Furness in Lancaster County England History and GeographyBROUGHTON in FURNESS, a market town and chapelry, in the parish of KIRKBY-IRELETH, hundred of LONSDALE, north of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 29 miles (N. W.) from Lancaster, containing 1253 inhabitants. The town is situated on the southern declivity of a gentle eminence, and is in the form of a square: the houses are built of stone, and roofed with blue slate. In the centre of the town is a spacious square area, the ground for forming which was given by John Gilpin, Esq., whose widow erected a handsome lofty obelisk within it. Previously to the introduction of machinery, the spinning of woollen yarn prevailed to a considerable extent in private houses: the making of brushstocks and hoops at present furnishes employment to many of the inhabitants, particularly the latter, owing to the number and extent of the coppices on Furness Fells. The surrounding country is very mountainous, abounding with mines of iron and copper ore, and with slate quarries; a great quantity of the slate is shipped at Dudden Sands, for conveyance coast-wise: iron, grain, malt, oak-bark, and hoops, are also sent from the same place, in vessels averaging about sixty tons' burden; and from a place about half a mile below Dudden-bridge, in vessels carrying twenty-five tons, for which the ?stuary is navigable at the flow of the tide: coal and other articles of general consumption are brought to these places, whence they are distributed throughout the district. The market is on Friday: fairs are held, April 27th and August 1st (for horned cattle), and on the first Friday in October, for horned cattle and sheep; those in April and October are also statute fairs for the hiring of servants, and all are much frequented by the clothiers from Yorkshire. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of J. G. Saurey, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. There is a chapel of ease at Seathwaite. Edward Taylor, by will dated in 1784, bequeathed £100, on condition that £60 should be raised by subscription, for the benefit of a grammar school: these sums, with an additional sum of £36. 10., amounting in the whole to £196. 10., have been Iaid out in the purchase of premises now used as a workhouse; and the master is paid £6. 8. annually out of the poor rates, charging also quarterage for teaching: the school-room was built by subscription on a piece of waste ground. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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