Broughton East
Broughton East is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 173, increasing at the 2011 census to 196.Photo: Paul Brooker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 217 residents
- Description: civil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Broughton East (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Broughton East, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grange-over-Sands railway station and St Peter’s Church.
Grange-over-Sands railway station
Railway station
Photo: Our Phellap, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grange-over-Sands is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster. The station, situated 15+1⁄2 miles north-west of Lancaster, serves the town of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria.
St Peter’s Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter's Church is in the village of Field Broughton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Cartmel Racecourse
Sports venue
Cartmel Racecourse is a small national hunt racecourse in the village of Cartmel, now in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, historically in Lancashire. Until 1969, the two day Whitsun meeting was Cartmel's only fixture, when an August Bank Holiday Monday meeting was introduced.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grange-over-Sands and Cartmel.
Grange-over-Sands
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grange-over-Sands is also called the "Lakeland Riviera", since the influence of the Gulf Stream gives it an exceptionally mild climate. It was historically in Lancashire, but re-assigned to Cumbria in 1974.
Cartmel
Village
Photo: Strider52, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cartmel is a village in Furness (traditionally "Lancashire-over-the-Sands", England, 2+1⁄4 miles northwest of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea.
Lindale
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lindale - traditionally Lindale in Cartmel - is a village in the south of Cumbria. It lies on the north-eastern side of Morecambe Bay, England. It is located in the historic county of Lancashire.
Broughton East
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Broughton East” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Broughton East”
- Chinese: “Broughton East”
- Dutch: “Broughton East”
- French: “Broughton East”
- Irish: “Broughton East”
- Japanese: “ブロートンイースト”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Broughton East”
- Polish: “Broughton East”
- Swedish: “Broughton East”
- Turkish: “Broughton East”
- “Broughton East”
Localities in the Area
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