BROUGHTON, a parish in the hundred of ORLINGBURY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (S.W.) from Kettering, containing 455 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £21. 9. 7., and in the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.