BROUGHTON (LITTLE), a township in the parish
of BRIDEKIRK, ALLERDALE ward below Derwent, county
of CUMBERLAND, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Cockermouth,
containing 237 inhabitants. A meeting-house
was built by the Society of Friends in 1656, and ou,e
by the Anabaptists in 1672. Here is a manufactory
for tobacco-pipes and coarse earthenware. Abraham'
Fletcher, a self-taught mathematician of no inconsiderable
eminence, author of the " Universal Measurer," was
born here, in 1714; he was the son of a tobacco-pipe
maker, and ha early life laboured at that occupation.