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the young stags. It will be hard if one or another of these ety- 
mologies cannot be made to fit the circumstances of each of the 
many Broughtons in England. Meanwhile, “our village” is un- 
deniably by the brook. The Church is there, the oldest houses are 
there, the original population was doubtless there, the primitive 
parecia was there. 
The subsequent addition of the agnomen Gifford evidently comes 
from that family, of which I will speak under the Manorial history. 
The Parishes which surround us have already been mentioned. 
The river Avon is our natural, and almost our actual boundary on 
the south. There are, however, seventeen Broughton acres the 
other side of it. We are in the Hundred of Bradford. There are 
five houses at Challymead in the west, and a few more at Norring- 
ton in the north, which are not connected with the other habita- 
tions, but which cannot properly be called hamlets or distinct 
sub-divisions of the Parish. Except where the tithing of Holt 
makes an inroad on the south-western corner, the land is a tole- 
rably symmetrical block, the average length and breadth of which 
is 1 mile 6 furlongs. The acreage, according to the Tithe com- 
mutation survey of 1841, is 1677a. 2r. 15p., which are thus 
distributed in 1856. 
A. in, Bo 
Arable - - - - 254 0 30 
Pasture - - - . 1207 0 17} 
Houses and Gardens - VO OS ET 
Commons - - - 390 2 9 
Plantation - ihe fais fi aa 
Railway - - - 20 2 48 
Half river, roads, and waste 838 2 35 
Church and yard’ - - 0 1 838 
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The earliest mention which I have seen of Broughton and of any 
proprietor here is contained in the description of the grant of the 
“ Vill of Bradeford” by King Ethelred, 1001, to the monastery of 
