Broughton, Wrexham

Broughton is a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It has an area of 469 hectares and had a population of 6, 498 in the 2001 census, increasing to 7, 454 at the 2011 Census. The area is dominated by the Moss Valley, which historically was known for its coal mining. Today it is operated as a country park, and there is a golf course of the same name in the vicinity. HistoryBroughton was recorded in the reign of Henry VII as one of the townships of the manor of Eglwysegle (a name preserved in the area known as Eglwyseg near Llangollen), part of the lordship of Bromfield. The Wrexham historian Alfred Neobard Palmer noted: Three villages are situated in that part of Wales which was settled by Englishmen. They appear in Domesday as "Brochetune" or "Broctune, " which can hardly mean anything else than "Brook-town". The brook which may have given the Bromfield Broughton its name is now almost always dry, but "Rhyd Broughton" (or Broughton ford) preserves the memory of it. Under the ecclesiastical administration the township of Broughton was part of the parish of Wrexham, and later of Brymbo. Population changes led to it being made a parish in its own right in 1909.

Broughton is a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It has an area of 469 hectares and had a population of 6, 498 in the 2001 census, increasing to 7, 454 at the 2011 Census. The area is dominated by the Moss Valley, which historically was known for its coal mining. Today it is operated as a country park, and there is a golf course of the same name in the vicinity. HistoryBroughton was recorded in the reign of Henry VII as one of the townships of the manor of Eglwysegle (a name preserved in the area known as Eglwyseg near Llangollen), part of the lordship of Bromfield. The Wrexham historian Alfred Neobard Palmer noted: Three villages are situated in that part of Wales which was settled by Englishmen. They appear in Domesday as "Brochetune" or "Broctune, " which can hardly mean anything else than "Brook-town". The brook which may have given the Bromfield Broughton its name is now almost always dry, but "Rhyd Broughton" (or Broughton ford) preserves the memory of it. Under the ecclesiastical administration the township of Broughton was part of the parish of Wrexham, and later of Brymbo. Population changes led to it being made a parish in its own right in 1909.