The village of Nether Broughton is approximately 6 miles north-west of Melton Mowbray. Early nonconformity Around 40 Quakers met on Sundays in 1669 in the house of miller John Wilford, ‘their teachers not knowne sometimes silent’.[1] There were 23 dissenters noted in 1676.[2] Samuel Greene, a Presbyterian minister, was preaching at meetings here in 1705, … Continue reading Protestant nonconformity in Nether Broughton