Broughton, Tweeddale
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Tweeddale
Tweeddale is a committee area and lieutenancy area in the Scottish Borders with a population of 17,394 at the latest census in 2001 it is the second smallest of the 5 committee areas in the Borders. It is the traditional name for the area drained by the upper reaches of the River Tweed...
in the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
Borders
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...
. Towns and villages nearby include Biggar
Biggar, South Lanarkshire
Biggar is a town and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, around 30 miles from Edinburgh along the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and Peebles, and as such Biggar serves a wide rural area...
, Drumelzier
Drumelzier
Drumelzier , is a village on the B712 in the Tweed Valley in the Scottish Borders.The area of the village is extensive and includes the settlements of Wrae, Stanhope, Mossfennan and Kingledoors. To the north is Broughton and to the south the road passes Crook Inn to Tweedsmuir.The Drumelzier or...
, Kilbucho
Kilbucho
Kilbucho is a small settlement in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland in Peeblesshire and near Biggar and Broughton.The name derives from the church which was dedicated to St Bega an Irish abbess. Several monasteries were dedicated to St Bega, many in Cumbria including St Bees but also in...
, and Peebles
Peebles
Peebles is a burgh in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders, lying on the River Tweed. According to the 2001 Census, the population was 8,159.-History:...
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The village has a post office, village store, bowling green, tennis courts, a village hall, petrol station and garage, and an art gallery. There is also a small cask ale
Cask ale
Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is the term for unfiltered and unpasteurised beer which is conditioned and served from a cask without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure...
brewery, Broughton Ales Brewery, which produces many popular beers, including "Merlin", "Black Douglas", "Scottish Oatmeal Stout", "Old Jock" and "Greenmantle".
Culture
The village is best known as the one-time home of John Buchan; Biggar Museum TrustBiggar Museum Trust
Biggar Museum Trust consists of several museums based in and around the town of Biggar in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was largely started on the initiative of several individuals, notably Brian Lambie, some years ago, and is both non-profit and independent of local government; indeed,...
run a museum dedicated to his life in Broughton. It is also home to Broughton Place, a private house built in the style of a 17th-century Scottish tower house, which was designed by Basil Spence
Basil Spence
Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.-Training:Spence was born in Bombay, India, the son of Urwin...
in 1938 and incorporates decorative reliefs by architectural sculptor Hew Lorimer
Hew Lorimer
Hew Martin Lorimer was a Scottish sculptor.He was born in Edinburgh, the second son of architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He was educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, then at Magdalen College, Oxford University, but he left Oxford prematurely to study design and sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art...
. The village contains six listed buildings.
Transport
The Symington, Biggar and Broughton RailwaySymington, Biggar and Broughton Railway
The Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway Company was a railway in southern Scotland. It was later absorbed by the Caledonian Railway, and is now closed...
had a station and its headquarters here, which was later absorbed into the Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway
The Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921...
. The line is now closed. The Talla Railway
Talla Railway
The Talla Railway was a reservoir construction railway in Scotland active from 1897 to 1910. Located in the Scottish Borders, its most substantial engineering feature was the Tweed Viaduct, a 100 foot girder bridge built to carry the railway and water pipeline across the River Tweed at...
led from here to the Talla Reservoir
Talla Reservoir
Talla Reservoir, located a mile from Tweedsmuir, Scottish Borders, Scotland, is an earth-work dam fed by Talla Water. The reservoir is supplemented by water from the nearby Fruid Reservoir...
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The village is located on the A701
A701 road
-Route:The A701 leaves Dumfries and travels north to meet the A74 at Beattock. It thens joins the A74 for a short spell before branching off to the north-east towards Moffat and ultimately Edinburgh....
and B7106 roads, and is located at the western end of the John Buchan Way footpath. A bus route operated by Scottish Borders Council's SB Buses subsidiary links Broughton to Biggar and Peebles.
See also
- John Murray of BroughtonJohn Murray of BroughtonSir John Murray of Broughton, 7th Baronet Stanhope was a Jacobite, who served as secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite Rising of 1745...
External links
History- RCAHMS record for Broughton, Burnfoot Farm
- Listed buildings in Broughton
- Scran resource: Broughton
- GEOGRAPH image: Broughton Place, Broughton Gallery
- GEOGRAPH image: Broughton Place (Basil Spence building)
- Scottish Borders Heritage: Broughton, Deva Craig
Literature
Local government and services
- Broughton Primary School
- Broughton Kirk
- Scottish Borders Council, Finalised Local Plan, and Settlement Profile
Environment
Recreation
- Broughton Gallery, at Broughton Place
- Broughton Choral Society
- Broughton Tennis Club
- Laurel Bank Tearoom and Bistro
- Broughton Ales
- Upper Tweed Community Cinema meets monthly in Broughton Village Hall