Great Broughton, North Yorkshire
Great Broughton | |
Great Broughton |
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Population | 940 |
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OS grid reference | NZ547063 |
Civil parish | Great and Little Broughton |
District | Hambleton |
Shire county | North Yorkshire |
Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MIDDLESBROUGH |
Postcode district | TS9 |
Dialling code | 01642 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Coordinates: 54°27′36″N 1°09′25″W / 54.460°N 1.157°W
Great Broughton is a village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire in northern England. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Stokesley, on the edge of the North York Moors National Park and the Cleveland Hills. Together with the adjacent village of Little Broughton, it forms a civil parish within Hambleton. The two villages are listed (under their Latin names Magna Broctun and Parva Broctun) in the Domesday book of 1086.[1] The name "Broughton" is a common English placename, derived from Old English meaning "farmstead by a brook".[2]
The village is overlooked by the Wainstones, a rocky outcrop popular with climbers,[3] and lies on the Cleveland Way. Broughton Beck flows northward through the village, joining the River Leven, a tributary of the Tees, at Stokesley. The B1257 road, which runs north to Stokesley and south over the moors to Helmsley, is a popular scenic drive;[4] its popularity with motorcyclists has led to opposition from locals.[5][6]
Great Broughton is 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Kirkby in Cleveland, and was formerly part of the Parish of Kirkby.[7] It was a part of the wapentake and liberty of Langbaurgh.[7]
The economy of the village was formerly dependent on agriculture, textiles,[8] and jet mining[1] but now the village relies on tourists visiting the moors and functions as a dormitory settlement for Teesside and North Yorkshire. The 2001 census put the population of the parish at 950, with the council estimating 940 inhabitants c.2005.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "about the parish", Great and Little Broughton Parish Council, Hambleton Council Website
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of British Placenames, ed. A.D.Mills, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ "Wainstones", Climb Online climbing details
- ↑ "Great drives: The B1257 from Helmsley and back through Whitby", Phil Llewellin, Daily Telegraph, 16 January 2001
- ↑ "Village bid to halt speeding bikers". The Press, Wednesday 8 October 2003
- ↑ "BMF warns on action against bikers", British Motorcyclists Federation press release, 7 May 2004
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Broughton, (Great and Little)", entry in History, Directory, and Gazeteer of the County of York (vol 2), Edward Banes, Hurst and Robinson, 1823
- ↑ "Broughton, Great and Little", pp. 409-412 A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis (editor), 1848
- ↑ Hambleton Parish Population Estimates 2001 - 2005, Hambleton District Council website.
External links
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- Great and Little Broughton Parish Council website, on the website of Hambleton District Council
- "Uncovering the industrial past of a place filled with rural tranquility", Mike Bridgen, Northern Echo, 20 March 2009