BROUGHTON, a parish in the hundred of THORNGATE, Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles (W.S.W.) from Stockbridge, containing, with the tything of French-Moor and the extra-parochial district of Pittleworth, 821 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £37.10., and in the patronage of Charles Baring Wall, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists. A fair for pedlary and toys is held on the first Monday in July: the lord of the manor holds a court leet annually. Thomas Dowse, in 1601, conveyed an estate in trust for the support of a free school, the rental of which, together with minor benefactions, amounting to £68. 17. annually, is paid to the schoolmaster, who has also a house, garden, and a small plot of land, for which he instructs the children of Broughton and Bossington; the present number is about forty. Camden considers the Roman station Erige, noticed in Antonine's Itinerary, to have been here: Salmon fixes it.on a hill near Broughton; and Mr. GaJe says that, in 1719, he sawvestiges of the station in a wood near this place, on the road to Salisbury. The Roman road passed about a mile south of the village.