Broughton Moor
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Broughton Moor is a village and civil parish in the Allerdale district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 726. The village is about 2½ miles south of Maryport. The village has a small Primary School with approximately 50 children on roll and a Preschool (Cuddly Koalas) with approximately 24 children on roll. There is a Church (St. Columba's, C of E) and a Methodist Chapel. The village also has a Public House (The Miner's Arms) and a village shop.
As well as the village of Broughton Moor itself, the parish also includes Sunny Slack (or Harker Marsh).
[edit] History
Broughton Moor is a village, situated on an extensile moor about 2 miles north from Broughton and 5 north-west of Cockermouth. Broughton Moor was formed into a civil parish on October 1st, 1898, by Local Government Board Order 38,315, from Great and Little Broughton townships, and is in the Workington division of the county, ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, Derwent petty sessional division, Cockermouth union, county court district of Cockermouth and Workington, rural deanery of Maryport and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The church of St. Columba, erected in 1904, is a building of stone, with chancel, nave, south porch and a tower containing one bell. The Church was consecrated on 3rd May 1905. It was built by the villagers under the direction of Mr Lloyd Wilson to the designs of the well-known church architect, Mr W. D. Caroe, R.A. who gave his services gratuitously. It is said that Mr Caroe had recently returned from a visit to St Columba’s on the Isle of Iona and that he was influenced by the ruined abbey church of Our Lady, hence the feeling of early Celtic influence. Until 1936, St. Columba’s, Broughton Moor, was a chapelry in the Parish of Christ Church, Little Broughton. It is now a listed building. Although only a small church of approximately 100 seats, it has a lovely atmosphere which is often commented on by visitors. In the last 18 months it has undergone extensive restoration and is about to be internally redecorated.there are 234 sittings. The register dates from the year 1905. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1903, and a Primitive Methodist, built 1864. There are collieries here. The soil is limey; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are oats and turnips, and some land in pasture. The area is 1,736 acres; the population in 1912 was 932.
[edit] Broughton Moor Today
Broughton Moor (National Grid Reference NY055 335) is a quiet village situated almost centrally in the triangle formed by Cockermouth, Maryport and Workington. With a current population of around 600 (adults) it was built originally to house the mining community. Only two miles from the coast, Broughton Moor is situated on a ridge overlooking the Solway Firth to the north with superb views and spectacular sunsets over the Galloway hills, while to the south there is the incomparable vista of the Lakeland Fells. There is a mix of privately owned and local authority housing and a blend of social groups. Nowadays the local coal mines have closed, and after extensive opencast mining in recent years the land has reverted to its former agricultural state. The majority of the workforce are employed outside the village in surrounding towns and industries.
The area surrounding the village offers lovely walks over fields and through woodland and there is a small tarn. There is diverse wildlife such as red squirrels, foxes, badgers, buzzards, sparrowhawks, pheasants, owls etc. as well as the more commonly seen species.
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