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Broxted
Population526 
OS grid referenceTL578270
Civil parish
  • Broxted
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNMOW
Postcode districtCM6
Dialling code01279
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
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St Mary's Church

Broxted is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. It is located 11 km (6.8 mi) northeast of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is 23 km (14 mi) northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. There is a Parish Council.[1] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 526.[2] The village lies on the road between Molehill Green and Thaxted. It has one pub called the Prince of Wales. Broxted was known earlier as Chawreth.

References

  1. ^ "Uttlesford Information regarding Broxted" (HTML). www.uttlesford.gov.uk. Retrieved 2007-03-14. [dead link]
  2. ^ http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=794665&c=broxted&d=16&e=15&g=447288&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1311256858325&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779

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.