Upper Broughton (Broughton Sulney), Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Broughton Sulney St Luke (also known as Upper Broughton) is an Ancient parish in the melton Mowbray area of Nottinghamshire whose parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbour Old Dalby, Leicestershire.

The church was restored in 1855 by S.S. Teulon but originated about 1200 in part and has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage British listed building

BROUGHTON-SULNEY, a parish, in the union of Melton-Mowbray, S. division of the wapentake of Bingham and of the county of Nottingham, 7 miles (N. W.) from Melton-Mowbray; containing 371 inhabitants. This parish, which is on the road from Nottingham to Melton, comprises by measurement 1900 acres. The surface is boldly undulated, and the scenery pleasingly diversified: the river Smite, which rises in Old Dalby, forms the eastern boundary of the parish, separating it from Nether Broughton, in the county of Leicester. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 9. 4½.; net income, £388; patron, Sir J. Radcliffe: in the year 1762, the tithes were commuted for 243a. 22p. of land. The church is an ancient edifice in good repair. The water of a spring vulgarly called Woundheal, is noted for the cure of scorbutic eruptions

From: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 409-412. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50837 Date accessed: 15 August 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Melton Mowbray Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

Probate records
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