Brougham, Cumbria
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Brougham is a small village or more properly a collection of hamlets but a large civil parish on the outskirts of Penrith in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 279.
Within the parish are the ruins of the medieval Brougham Castle once home to Lady Anne Clifford and the mainly 19th century Brougham Hall the former seat of the Lords Brougham and Vaux. Near the castle is the Countess Pillar.
The parish has two Anglican churches within it the historic St Ninians or Ninekirks situated by the banks of the River Eamont and St Wilfreds or Brougham Chapel next to the hall overlooking the River Lowther. There is also a branch of the Elim Pentecostal Church in a former barn at Pembroke House Farm.
Brougham "village" itself is no more than a scattering of farms and modern housing near to the hall and is along with neighbouring Eamont Bridge often classed as an outlying suburb of Penrith. There are some more cottages next to the castle which is partially built on the site of the Roman fort of Brocavum.
Within the parish is Whinfell Forest the site of the Center Parcs Oasis Holiday Village.
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