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Broxton

BROXTON, a township, in the parish of Malpas, union of Great Boughton, Higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 5 miles (N.) from Malpas; containing 464 inhabitants, and comprising 1638 acres, the soil of which is sand and clay. It has given name to a hundred, which, at the time of the Norman survey, was called Dudestan. The tithes have been commuted for £170.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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