Description
Broxton, a township in Malpas parish, Cheshire, 4 1/2 miles N of Malpas. It has a station on the Chester and Shrewsbury branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post and telegraph office under Chester; money order office, Glutton. Acreage, 2131; population, 558. Broxton Hall and Bolesworth Castle are the chief residences. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
