BROUGHTON-SULNEY, a parish in the southern
division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM,
12 miles (S. E. by S.) from Nottingham,
containing 348 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of
York, rated in the king's books at £11. 9. 4., and in
the patronage of Sir J. Radcliffe. 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. The water of a spring, vulgarly called Woundheal,
in this parish, is noted for the cure of scorbutic
eruptions.