Bucks Series A-Z....B Traditional Cache
Smithbats: As this tends to get flooded a lot we have archived it. Watch out for B mark 2 coming soon!
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After seeing many other Alphabetical series, we decided to do our
own for our corner of the county of Buckinghamshire.
The caches all vary, some are bigger than others, but none are
micros and all have room for swaps.
Broughton is a hamlet to the east of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire,
England and together with Bierton and other neighbouring hamlets
forms part of the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton. Broughton
is also the name of a nearby housing estate in Aylesbury
itself.
Broughton was first recorded as being part of the manor of Bierton
in the late 13th century. The hamlet name is Anglo-Saxon and means
farm by a brook. The brook in this case is the Bearbrook that rises
near Bedgrove, flows through Broughton then back into Aylesbury
before joining the River Thame near Quarrendon.
In the 1840s, a new branch railway was constructed linking
Aylesbury to the Midlands that crossed the road that linked
Broughton with Bierton. A public house and signalmen's cottages
were constructed at the level crossing and the area became known as
Broughton Crossing. Today, this is considered a separate hamlet
from Broughton itself.
In the 1960s British housing boom, land that belonged to the parish
of Bierton was sold to developers who constructed the housing
estate of Broughton. Many local people immediately think of the
estate when they hear the word 'Broughton,' as it is a very popular
estate on which to live. All that separates Broughton hamlet from
Broughton estate today is the brook from which the hamlet first
took its name.
In the 2001 census, the population of Broughton housing estate was
5,802 people.
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