In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Broughton like this:
BROUGHTON, a chapelry in Hawarden parish, Flint; on the Mold railway, 4¾ miles SW of Chester. It has a station, of the name of Broughton-Hall, on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Vroughton, under Chester. Acres, 1,569. Real property, £2,269. Pop., 388. Houses, 74. Hawarden Park, the seat of Sir S. R. Glynne, Bart., is adjacent. Broughton Hall is an ancient wooden mansion, of the Richardsons.-The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Hawarden, in the diocese of St. Asaph.
Broughton through time
Broughton is now part of Flintshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Flintshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Broughton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Broughton in Flintshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23253
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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