BROUGHTON-ASTLEY, a township and a parish in Lutterworth district, Leicester. The township lies on the Midland railway, near the Fosse way, 5½ miles N by W of Lutterworth; and has a station on the railway. Pop., 354. Houses, 77. The parish contains also the townships of Primethorpe and Sutton-in-the-Elms; and its Post Town is Cosby, under Lutterworth. Acres, 1,930. Real property, £5,544. Pop., 785. Houses, 182. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £674.* Patron, H. Radford, Esq. The church is old. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £19.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))