Broughton, Scottish Borders

Broughton is a village in Tweeddale in the Scottish Borders council area, in the south of Scotland, in the civil parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho and Upper Tweed Community Council. Broughton is on the Biggar Water, near where it flows into the River Tweed. It is about 7 km east of Biggar, and 15 km west of Peebles.

The village has a post office, village store, tea room/bistro, bowling green, tennis courts, a village hall, a petrol station and a garage.

The village is best known as the one-time home of John Buchan; Biggar Museum Trust run a museum dedicated to his life in Broughton. The Museum is currently closed, and will move to a new home in nearby Peebles in August 2012. Broughton 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 in 1938 and incorporates decorative reliefs by architectural sculptor Hew Lorimer. The village contains six listed buildings.

The Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway had a station and its headquarters here, which was later absorbed into the Caledonian Railway. The line is now closed. The Talla Railway led from here to the Talla Reservoir.

The village is located on the A701 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.

Most common surnames in Broughton at the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1881, by order of incidence:

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