BROUGHTON-in-AREDALE, a parish in the
eastern division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS,
West riding of the county of YORK, 83 miles
(W. by S.) from Skipton, containing, with Elslack, 427
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £5. 16. 0., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The
church, dedicated to All Saints, contains several mural
monuments belonging to the family of Tempest, who
have been long resident here. The manufacture of cotton
goods is carried on to a limited extent. The Saxon
name of the place, implying a fortified town, is evidence
of its antiquity; and there are vestiges of an early settlement,
ascribed to the Romans: various instruments,
supposed to have belonged to that people, or to the
Britons, have also been discovered. The village sufferedconsiderably
in the civil war of the last century, when
the inhabitants were plundered, and much of their property
was destroyed.