Boughton, Nottinghamshire

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| country = England

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| static_image_caption = (New) Pumping Station

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| official_name = Boughton

| population =

| civil_parish = Ollerton and Boughton

| shire_district = Newark and Sherwood

| shire_county = Nottinghamshire

| region = East Midlands

| constituency_westminster = Sherwood

| post_town = Newark

| postcode_district = NG22

| postcode_area = NG

| dial_code = 01623

| os_grid_reference = SK6768

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Boughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire, England, two miles east of the town of Ollerton. In 1961 the parish had a population of 1374.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10257037/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Boughton CP/Ch through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=25 July 2023}} On 11 November 1996 the civil parish was abolished and merged with the civil parish of Ollerton to form the new civil parish of "Ollerton and Boughton".{{cite web|url=https://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/11379/bulltein-of-changes-1994-1997.pdf|publisher=Department of the Environment|title=Bulletin of Changes of Local Authority Status, Names and Areas 1994-1997|accessdate=26 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027030236/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/11379/bulltein-of-changes-1994-1997.pdf|archive-date=27 October 2017|url-status=dead}}

Boughton windmill was located close to the present B6381 road ({{gbmapping|SK673684}}).

The parish church is St Matthew's Church, Boughton.

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