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24-619: Broughton may refer to: People [ edit ] Broughton (name) Places [ edit ] For the etymology of Broughton, see Broughton (name) . Australia [ edit ] Broughton, Queensland , a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland Broughton, Victoria Canada [ edit ] Broughton, Nova Scotia Broughton Archipelago , British Columbia Broughton Island (British Columbia) , an island in that archipelago North Broughton Island , to

48-449: A location Broughton Astley , Leicestershire Broughton Gifford , Wiltshire Broughton Hackett , Worcestershire Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria Church Broughton , Derbyshire Drakes Broughton , Worcestershire Great and Little Broughton , Hambleton, North Yorkshire Nether Broughton , Leicestershire Upper Broughton , Nottinghamshire Scotland [ edit ] Broughton, Edinburgh Broughton, Orkney ,

72-547: A location Broughton, Craven , North Yorkshire Broughton, Cumbria Broughton, Hampshire Broughton, Lancashire Broughton, Lincolnshire Broughton, Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire Broughton, Northamptonshire Broughton, Oxfordshire Broughton, Ryedale , North Yorkshire Broughton, Salford , Greater Manchester Broughton Suspension Bridge , 1831 collapse Broughton, Shropshire , in Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill Broughton, Staffordshire ,

96-731: A location Broughton, Scottish Borders Wales [ edit ] Broughton, Flintshire Broughton, Vale of Glamorgan Broughton, Wrexham United States [ edit ] Broughton, Illinois Broughton, Ohio Broughton, Pennsylvania Sport [ edit ] Broughton RUFC , an English rugby union club Broughton Park RUFC , an English rugby union club Broughton Rangers , an English rugby league club Other uses [ edit ] Broughton Anglican College, Menangle, New South Wales , Australia Broughton High School, Edinburgh , Scotland, United Kingdom Needham B. Broughton High School , Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Broughton Hospital ,

120-666: A former drapers shop, the shop sells natural and organic food, with its goods being completely vegetarian or vegan . The Broughton Spurtle : Broughton's Free Independent Stirrer is a community newspaper for Broughton and adjacent areas in north-east and central Edinburgh [1] . It has been running since February 1994 and has no political, religious or commercial affiliation. It reports hyperlocally relevant political, planning, environment, transport, licensing, cultural, historic and plain odd stories, and tries to be equally rude to all sides without fear or favour especially during elections. Generally speaking, it does not see eye to eye with

144-634: A psychiatric treatment facility, Morganton, North Carolina, United States Broughton House , a town house in Scotland Broughton House, Parramatta , a heritage-listed residence in Australia Broughton House, Raleigh , a mansion in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Jolly-Broughton House , a mansion in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Broughton (HBC vessel) , see Hudson's Bay Company vessels Topics referred to by

168-529: Is cited as one of the Ruthven Raiders and ultimately to William Bellenden, 1st Lord Bellenden of Broughton (d. 6 September 1671). The area was once known for its witchcraft. Scattered houses on the farmlands which originally made up Broughton eventually gave way to more general housing in the century prior to the formation of Edinburgh's New Town which adjoined the parish of Broughton. Its modern borders are defined, approximately, as being Leith Walk in

192-560: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Broughton (name) According to M. Leon Broughton, author of Broughton Memoirs (1962, Second Edition): "The name Broughton is often derived from the Saxon "Broc", which means brook or broken land; and "Tun", the dwelling or town. In King Ethelred ’s charter to the monastery of Shaftesbury , England, 1001 AD, Elfwig ’s boundaries at Broctun are mentioned. The Domesday Book of William

216-665: Is featured in the Inspector Rebus stories written by Edinburgh-based writer Ian Rankin , is located on Gayfield Square in the south east of Broughton. Broughton High School was formerly located in Broughton, but is now located further west in Comely Bank . The Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid undertook part of his formal education at Broughton High. Schools still located in Broughton include Drummond Community High School , Broughton Primary School and St Marys RC Primary School. Among

240-664: The Earl of Mar who had led the Jacobite rising of 1715 ) and his wife Lady Charlotte Hope. In 1767, after Lord Erskine's death it was sold to the David Leslie, 6th Earl of Leven . An entry in the Scots Magazine in 1766 states: "Marriage. June 10th. At Gayfield, near Edinburgh, the Earl of Hopetoun to Lady Betty Leven." A late 18th century print shows Gayfield House standing in attractive grounds, surrounded by fields and by orchards, bounded to

264-558: The Conqueror , 1086 AD, describes thirty-four manors of Broctun, variously Latinized by the clerks of the records to: Brochthon, Brocton, Brotton, Broton, Brogton, and Broughton, perhaps according to the pronunciation peculiar to the localities where the manors where situated. Later the spelling of Broughton seems to have generally been adopted. There are about twenty distinct parishes besides hamlets and different localities in England that bear

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288-571: The Edinburgh Evening News. Gayfield House is a Category A listed building at 18 East London Street, Edinburgh. Father and son builders Charles and William Butler built Gayfield House between 1761 and 1764 as a stylish country villa combining Scots Palladian with Dutch details and a touch of French decor, within walking distance of the crowded Old Town of Edinburgh. In 1765 the Butlers sold it for £2,000 to Thomas, Lord Erskine (the eldest son of

312-486: The South East by Leith Walk. The fortunes of the house gradually declined in the 19th century as Edinburgh expanded. Loss of garden ground and the ever-approaching tenements around made it less attractive as a private house. In 1873, it was sold to William Williams as Edinburgh's New Veterinary College . This closed in 1904 and it was then bought by a merchant who stored manure in the downstairs rooms. After World War 1 it

336-547: The city with a number of gay bars and clubs. Edinburgh's first traffic lights were installed in Broughton Street in 1928. The Scottish folk band Silly Wizard were based for some time in a flat located at 69 Broughton Street. Phil Cunningham , member of Silly Wizard and younger brother of the band's founder, Johnny Cunningham , lived in Broughton. Edinburgh's biggest health food store , Real Foods, has traded on Broughton Street for over forty years. Opening in 1976 within

360-464: The cortner of York Place stands the large Gothic Revival St Paul's and St George's Church which was built 1816-1818 by Archibald Elliot and is modelled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge . Half-way up the hill stood St Mary's Free Church, on the corner of Albany Place. This ornate Gothic building was erected 1859-60 by John Thomas Rochead and was demolished in 1985 to make way for a new office block. The nearest tram stops are Picardy Place at

384-478: The mound is near the west end of the village and may have been the site of a Roman station Pretorium from about 400 AD. Many Roman coins , bricks, tiles and other artifacts have been found in the area. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the name appears as Bertone . [ A Dictionary of English Place-Names , A. D. Mills, Oxford University Press , 1991] Notable people with the surname include: It is also used as part of

408-687: The name; and it is locally applied to a small parish in Canada, to an island in the Alatamaha river in Georgia, and also occurs in the states of South Carolina , Texas, and some of the New England states." Broughton may also come from an Old English word meaning 'stronghold'. It may also be derived from "berg" (a hill), and "ton" (a town), both Saxon words. This is the case in Lincolnshire , England. At this Broughton,

432-735: The north of Broughton Island Broughton Point , on the south coast of North Broughton Island the Broughton Strait off the north coast of Vancouver Island, between that island and Queen Charlotte Strait the Broughton Peaks , a small group of peaks in the Barkley Sound region of the west coast of Vancouver Island Jamaica [ edit ] Broughton, Jamaica United Kingdom [ edit ] England [ edit ] Broughton, Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire Broughton, Cambridgeshire Broughton, Claverley , Shropshire,

456-539: The notable church buildings in the Broughton area is the former Catholic Apostolic Church (1893–1901) on Mansfield Place at the foot of Broughton Street. The building, now called the Mansfield Traquair Centre, was designed in 1893 by Robert Rowand Anderson and is noted for its rich interior decoration with murals by the Irish Arts and Crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair . At the top of Broughton Street on

480-454: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Broughton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broughton&oldid=1219049399 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

504-479: The south east, Broughton Street in the south west, Broughton Road in the north west and McDonald Road in the north east. Moving clockwise from south east, Broughton is bordered by Greenside and Calton , the New Town , Canonmills , and Pilrig . Broughton's main thoroughfare is Broughton Street. The street has many independent speciality shops. Broughton is today at the centre of Edinburgh's "pink triangle", an area of

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528-471: The title of some British Peers and baronets . Broughton, Edinburgh Broughton ( / ˈ b r oʊ t ən / ) is an ancient feudal barony, today an area of Edinburgh , Scotland . The feudal barony of Broughton in the 16th and 17th centuries was in the hands of the Bellenden family, who had made their money in the legal profession. Sir John Bellenden of Broughton , Knt., (d. 1 October 1576) who

552-504: Was present at the Coronation of King James VI in 1567, possessed the barony of Broughton, with the additional superiorities of the Canongate and North Leith , having therein nearly two thousand vassals, according to Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit , writing in 1754. Broughton passed to his son, Sir Lewis Bellenden , Knt., (d. 27 August 1591) Lord Justice-Clerk and a Lord of Session , who

576-507: Was used as a laundry which also manufactured ammonia and bleach. In the 1970s it was used as a garage and for car repairs, a hole was opened in its facade and the basement was used as a garage. By 1990 it had fallen into disrepair, was vandalised and much was stolen including carved wood and gesso chimneypieces. A roofer Trevor Harding bought it in 1991, renovated much of it and sub-divided the interior into basement and upper floors. He sold it in 2013. Gayfield Square Police station, which

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