Broughton Crossing

Broughton Crossing is a small settlement located between the Buckinghamshire villages of Bierton and Broughton in England. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton.

It takes its name from a long-vanished level crossing where the road crossed the now-defunct Cheddington to Aylesbury Line a branch line connecting the West Coast Main Line at Cheddington and Aylesbury. It consists of a public house and a few private houses, the easterly part of the former railway has been made into a road. It is a distinct settlement separated from Broughton itself by the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

There is an urban myth that there was once a railway station or halt there.

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Coordinates: 51°49′25″N 0°47′03″W / 51.82373°N 0.78406°W / 51.82373; -0.78406

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