BROUGH, a pleasant and thriving village on the banks of the Humber, 10 ½ miles west from Hull, is a hamlet of Elloughton parish, with a station on the Hull and Selby branch railway. There is a Wesleyan chapel near the Brough station, erected in 1852; there are also assembly rooms. This place is said to have been the “Petuaria” of Ptolemy; the Roman Toad which passed from Lincoln to York crossed the Humber at Brough Ferry and traces of it have been discovered near the village; quantities of Roman coin, small bronzes and a variety of pottery have been found, and the late Professor Phillips, of Oxford, considered that Castle Hill was the site of a Roman camp. A new Court house and police station is now (1913) in course of erection. Brough House, the seat of Arthur Reginald Baldwin esq. is a spacious mansion in the Italian style, surrounded by fine old trees. Henry Broadley Harrison-Broadley esq. M.P., J.P. of Welton House, who is lord of the manor, and the trustees of the late T. W. Palmer esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is principally alluvial; subsoil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The population is included with that of Elloughton.