Little Broughton is a village and former

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, now in the parish of Broughton, in the

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district, in the county of

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, England, located west of

Cockermouth Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. The name refers to the town's position by the confluence of the River Cocker into the River Derwent. At the 2021 census, the built u ...

. In 1891 the parish had a population of 820.

Governance

Little Broughton is part of the

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constituency of the

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. For

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purposes it was in the ''Broughton St Bridget's''

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of Allerdale Borough Council until 2023. This ward stretches north to

Bridekirk Bridekirk is a village and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district in the county of Cumbria, England. It is around north of the Derwent river and about the same distance from the nearest large town of Cockermout ...

with a total population at the 2011 Census of 4,178. It is now administered as part of the

unitary authority. The village belongs to a Broughton Parish Council, which covers

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and Little Broughton. Little Broughton was formerly a

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parish, from 1866 Little Broughton was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 October 1898 to form Broughton and

Broughton Moor Broughton Moor is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It is situated on an extensive Moorland, moor about north of Broughton, Cumbria, Broughton, north west of Cockermouth, south of Maryport and north of Workington. According ...

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