Field Broughton is a village in the
Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast, shipbuilding and the Royal Port of Barrow, Royal ...
Unitary Authority of the
English county
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of
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
.
The village forms part of the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Broughton East.
Location
It is about four miles away from the town of
Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District Lake District National Park, National Park. In the United Kingdom Census 201 ...
.
Transport
For transport there is the
A590 road
The A590 is a trunk road in southern Cumbria, in the north-west of England. It runs north-east to south-west from M6 junction 36, through the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness to terminate at Biggar Bank on Walney Island.[Grange-over-Sands railway station
Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District National Park. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 4,114, increasing at the 2021 census ...]
nearby.
Nearby settlements
Nearby settlements include the town of
Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District Lake District National Park, National Park. In the United Kingdom Census 201 ...
, the villages of
High Newton
High Newton is a village in the civil parish of Lindale and Newton-in-Cartmel, in the Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
By-pass
Formerly, the village was bisected by the A590 road unti ...
and
Cartmel
Cartmel is a village in Furness (traditionally "Lancashire-over-the-Sands" (and in the ceremonial county of Cumbria), England, northwest of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The village takes its name from the Cartmel Peninsula, a ...
and the hamlets of
Low Newton and
Barber Green. It has a church called
St. Peter's Church.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Broughton East
References
* http://www.francisfrith.com/field-broughton/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100925175727/http://www.visitcumbria.com/churches/fieldbroughton.htm
Villages in Cumbria
Westmorland and Furness
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