Broughton Moor

Broughton Moor is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It is situated on an extensive moor about 2 miles north of Broughton, 5 miles north west of Cockermouth, 2.5 miles south of Maryport and 4.5 miles north of Workington.

The earliest record of Broughton Moor appeared as early as 1187 in Holme Cultram Abbey records. Broughton Moor was formed into a civil parish on 1 October 1898, by Local Government Board Order 38,315, from Great Broughton and Little Broughton townships, and was in the Workington division of the county, the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, Derwent petty sessional division, Cockermouth Poor Law Union, the county court district of Cockermouth and Workington, the rural deanery of Maryport, the Archdeacon of West Cumberland and the Diocese of Carlisle.

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