Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 0.216096 sq. miles (0.559687 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.216096 sq. miles (0.559687 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09386
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.089272 N, 84.533991 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Broughton
Housing Units (2000): 91
Land area (2000): 1.917730 sq. miles (4.966898 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.917730 sq. miles (4.966898 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08875
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.934104 N, 88.463027 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62817
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Headwords:
Broughton
Wikipedia
Broughton may refer to:
Broughton (pronounced Brottun) (or, alternatively and largely in New England, Broton) has two claimed origins as a name.
According to M. Leon Broughton, author of "Broughton Memoirs" (Copyright 1962, Second Edition):
"The name Broughton is often derived from the Saxon “Broc”, which means brook or broken land; and “Tun”, the dwelling or town. In King Ethelred’s charter to the monastery of Shaftesbury, England, 1001 AD, Elfwig’s boundaries at Broctun are mentioned. The Domesday Book of William the Conqueror, 1086 AD, describes thirty-four manors of Broctun, variously Latinized by the clerks of the records to: Brochthon, Brocton, Brotton, Broton, Brogton, and Broughton, perhaps according to the pronunciation peculiar to the localities where the manors where situated.
Later the spelling of Broughton seems to have generally been adopted. There are about twenty distinct parishes besides hamlets and different localities in England that bear the name; and it is locally applied to a small parish in Canada, to an island in the Alatamaha river in Georgia, and also occurs in the states of South Carolina, Texas, and some of the New England states. The Broughtons are now widespread throughout the United States, and the world."
Broughton may also come from an Old English word meaning 'stronghold'. It is also likely to be derived from “berg” (a hill), and “ton” (a town), both Saxon words.
This is the case in Lincolnshire, England. At this Broughton, the mound is near the west end of the village and may have been the site of a Roman station Pretorium from about 400 AD. Many Roman coins, bricks, tiles and other artifacts have been found in the area. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the name appears as Bertone. ["A Dictionary of English Place-Names," A. D. Mills, Oxford University Press, 1991]
Usage examples of "broughton".
For this reason the same authority is at a loss to know whether the prisoners were immediately put to the knowledge of an assize, being taken ``red-hand,'' without the formality of being served a ``dittay'' (as who should say an indictment), as in ordinary cases, before the magistrates of Edinburgh, or else sent for trial before the baron bailie of the regality of Broughton, in whose jurisdiction Warriston was situated.
And Broughton has very carefully mapped out the developmental stages of self and knowing that lead up to this new centauric mode of being-in-the-world.
Parlabane sat with his friend, Duncan McLean, on high stools at the bar of the Barony on Broughton Street, Parlabane sipping a tomato juice with Worcester, Tabasco and quite definitely no vodka.
From Broughton, which you'll have passed through on your way here, it goes up to Ambleside, then down through Windermere to Kendal.