Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Broughton. You may be able to find further references to Broughton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Broughton parish, township, and village Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Broughton.

Place Type of entry Source
Frenchmoor township Bartholomew
FRENCHMOOR a tything Imperial
PITTLEWORTH a chapelry Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Broughton within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Queenwood 0 2
Buckholt 0 2
Crown Farm 0 2
Houghton 0 3
Bossington 0 2
Pittleworth 0 2
East Tytherley 1 2
Nether Wallop 1 3
West Tytherley 1 3
Test Valley 0 1
Mottisfont 0 2
Frenchmoor 0 2
Longstock 0 2
Stockbridge 10 2
Kings Somborne 0 5
Winterslow 0 2
Over Wallop 0 2
East Dean 0 2
Upper Eldon 0 2
Lockerley 1 1