BRQUGHTON (CHURCH), a parish in the hundred
of APPLETREE, county of DERBY, 8 miles (E.) from
Uttoxeter, containing, with Sapperton, 536 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael; in the chancel are
three stone stalls. A charity school was founded about
1745, by subscription among the freeholders, to which
the Duke of Devonshire was the principal contributor;
and the sum thus raised was invested in land, the
rental of which is about £30 per annum. Broughton
is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and
within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at
Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts
under 40s.