Broughton
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Canada
  • Broughton, Nova Scotia
    Broughton, Nova Scotia
    Broughton is a community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality about 12 miles from the former city of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Expected to be a boomtown when first settled, it was mostly abandoned when mining operations failed....

  • Broughton Archipelago
    Broughton Archipelago
    The Broughton Archipelago is a group of islands on the northeastern flank of the Queen Charlotte Strait on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. The largest islands in the group, which includes numerous smaller islets, are Broughton Island, North Broughton Island, Eden Island, Bonwick Island and...

    , British Columbia


England
  • Broughton, Aylesbury
    Broughton, Aylesbury
    Broughton is a hamlet to the east of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England and together with Bierton and other neighbouring hamlets forms part of the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton. Broughton is also the name of a nearby housing estate in Aylesbury itself.Broughton was first recorded as...

    , Buckinghamshire
  • Broughton, Cambridgeshire
    Broughton, Cambridgeshire
    Broughton is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about six miles north of Huntingdon. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 241. The small village has a lot of history, and once famous Eric Broadley founder of Lola Cars currently...

  • Broughton, Craven
    Broughton, Craven
    Broughton is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 81. The village is situated on the A59 road, about three miles west of Skipton.-Broughton Hall:...

    , North Yorkshire
  • Broughton, Cumbria
    Broughton, Cumbria
    Broughton is a civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England, consisting of Great Broughton and Little Broughton. It is located on the River Derwent, about east of Workington. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,727....

  • Broughton, Greater Manchester
    Broughton, Greater Manchester
    Broughton is an inner city area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the east bank of the River Irwell and A56 road, in the northeastern part of the City of Salford, north-northwest of Manchester city centre and south of Prestwich. Broughton consists of Broughton Park, Higher...

  • Broughton, Hampshire
    Broughton, Hampshire
    Broughton is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, about ten miles north of Romsey. According to the 2001 census it has a population of 1,029. There is also a herd of water buffalo....

  • Broughton, Lancashire
    Broughton, Lancashire
    Broughton is a village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England, about north of Preston city centre. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,735...

  • Broughton, Lincolnshire
    Broughton, Lincolnshire
    Broughton is a small town and civil parish situated on the Roman Ermine Street, in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire. England. The hamlet of Wressle is part of the parish....

  • Broughton, Milton Keynes
    Broughton, Milton Keynes
    Broughton is a historic village in North Buckinghamshire that has been a constituent element of Milton Keynes since the latter's designation in 1967; a civil parish; and modernly a suburb and new district of the 'city'.-History and Location:...

    , Buckinghamshire
  • Broughton, Northamptonshire
    Broughton, Northamptonshire
    Broughton is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Kettering, in Northamptonshire, England. Its population in 2001 was 2,047 people. The village is located around 2 miles south-west of Kettering, next to the A43 road .Broughton has a long history, being referred to as "Burtone" in the...

  • Broughton, Oxfordshire
    Broughton, Oxfordshire
    Broughton is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Banbury.Broughton's Church of England Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin was built in about 1300 in a style that is transitional from Early English to Decorated Gothic...

  • Broughton, Ryedale
    Broughton, Ryedale
    Broughton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, northwest of Malton. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 233....

    , North Yorkshire
  • Broughton-in-Furness
    Broughton-in-Furness
    Broughton in Furness is a small town on the southern boundary of England's Lake District National Park. It is located in the Furness region of Cumbria, which was part of Lancashire before 1974...

    , Cumbria


Jamaica
  • Broughton, Jamaica
    Broughton, Jamaica
    Broughton is situated on the south western coast of Westmoreland, Jamaica. Broughton is home to roughly 500 people. Most are fishermen, shop owners, and subsistence farmers, or work in nearby Negril and Savanna-la-Mar....



Scotland
  • Broughton, Edinburgh
    Broughton, Edinburgh
    Broughton is an ancient feudal barony today within the City of Edinburgh, Scotland that was once known for its witchcraft. Its borders are defined, approximately, as being Leith Walk in the south east, Broughton Street in the south west, Broughton Road in the north west and McDonald Road in the...

  • Broughton, Scottish Borders


Wales
  • Broughton, Flintshire
    Broughton, Flintshire
    Broughton is a small district in Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales–England border and located to the west of the City of Chester, England. Along with the nearby village of Bretton, the total population was 5,791 at the 2001 Census....

  • Broughton, Vale of Glamorgan
    Broughton, Vale of Glamorgan
    Broughton is a small village in the western part of the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales. It lies just northeast of Monknash and south of Wick. It contains a building known as "The Malthouse". The village has extensive remains of a grange of the former Cistercian Neath Abbey including a dove cote...

  • Broughton, Wrexham
    Broughton, Wrexham
    Broughton is a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It has an area of 469 hectares and had a population of 6,498 in the 2001 census.-History:...



United States
  • Broughton, Illinois
    Broughton, Illinois
    Broughton is a village in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 193 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area....

  • Broughton, Ohio
    Broughton, Ohio
    Broughton is a village in Paulding County, Ohio, United States. The population was 166 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Broughton is located at ....

  • Broughton, Pennsylvania
    Broughton, Pennsylvania
    Broughton, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community in South Park Township, Pennsylvania. Originally named Curry after Dr. Joseph Curry, frontier physician and Coroner of Allegheny County in 1810, it was re-named Broughton, to avoid confusion with the nearby Curry Hollow and the Curry in Blair...


People

  • Bruce Broughton
    Bruce Broughton
    Bruce Broughton is a film, video game, and television soundtrack composer who has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career, including American music classics such as "Homeward Bound," "Silverado", "Tombstone," and wonderfully lyric music for "Miracle on 34th...

    , an American composer
  • Needham B. Broughton
    Needham B. Broughton
    Needham Bryant Broughton was a wealthy businessman and politician in Raleigh, North Carolina in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He owned a prosperous printing business. Broughton was a large contributor to and supporter of the Wake County Public Schools. Needham B...

    , an American politician
  • Martin Broughton
    Martin Broughton
    Sir Martin Faulkner Broughton is a British businessman who is the current chairman of British Airways and former chairman of Liverpool Football Club...

    , an English businessman
  • William Broughton
    William Robert Broughton
    William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.-With Vancouver:In...

    , an English explorer
  • Thomas Broughton
    Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton
    Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work, Magistrates of the Roman Republic ....

     a Canadian classical scholar

Sport

  • Broughton RUFC
    Broughton RUFC
    Broughton Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in Salford, Greater Manchester, which at the time of the club's founding in 1869 was in Lancashire, England. Its home venue is the Broughton Cricket & Rugby Club pitch on Yew Street...

    , an English rugby union club
  • Broughton Park RUFC
    Broughton Park RUFC
    Broughton Park RUFC, is one of the oldest rugby union clubs in England and was established in 1882, just one year after the Lancashire County Rugby Union was founded and eleven years after the formation of the national Rugby Football Union.-History:...

    , an English rugby union club.
  • Broughton Rangers
    Broughton Rangers
    Broughton Rangers was a British rugby football, and subsequently a rugby league club. It was based in Broughton, Salford.-History:Broughton Rangers was founded in 1877 as Broughton and added Rangers for its second season...

    , an English rugby league club.

Other uses

  • Broughton Anglican College, Menangle, New South Wales, an Australian college
  • Broughton High School, Edinburgh
    Broughton High School, Edinburgh
    Broughton High School is in north Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a local authority school, noted for its music department: the City of Edinburgh Music School. It is currently next to Inverleith Park, next to private school Fettes College, but was formerly in Broughton proper, where the poet Hugh...

    , a Scottish school
  • Needham B. Broughton High School
    Needham B. Broughton High School
    Needham Bryant Broughton High School, or simply Broughton High School, is one of the flagship schools of the Wake County Public School System. It is located at 723 St. Mary's Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Broughton was named after the Raleigh aristocrat, Needham B. Broughton, who...

    , an American school
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