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Population
  
508 (2011)

Civil parish
  
Broxted

Country
  
Local time
  
Saturday 9:45 PM

District
  
UK parliament constituency
  
OS grid reference
  
TL578270

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Dialling code
  
01279

Broxted

Weather
  
7°C, Wind SW at 21 km/h, 86% Humidity

Broxted is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. It is situated 11 km (6.8 mi) north-east from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and 23 km (14 mi) north-west from the county town of Chelmsford.

Map of Broxted, Dunmow, UK

The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. There is a Parish Council. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 526, reducing to 508 at the 2011 Census. The village lies on the road between Molehill Green and Thaxted. It has one public house, the Prince of Wales. In the 16th and 17th centuries, part of Broxted was known as Chawreth.

According to the English ancestry section by J. Gardner Bartlett in the Shed Genealogy, 70 Thomas Shedd "was born in Chawreth (now Broxted), County Essex, in 1508, but when a young man settled in the adjoining rural parish of Debden in Uttlesford Hundred where he passed the rest of his life. This hilly parish covers about forty-five hundred acres, has a population of about eight hundred, and contains six manors, viz: Debden Hall, Deanes, [p. 13] Tendring, Weldbarnes, Molehall, and Amberden Hall, the latter located on rising ground in a grove two miles south-east of the church.

References

Broxted Wikipedia


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