Broxton, Cheshire
village and civil parish in Cheshire West, England, UK
Broxton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is 11 miles south of Chester, and 10 miles east of Wrexham in Wales. The civil parish also contains the small settlements of Barnhill, Bolesworth, Brown Knowl, Fuller's Moor and Meadow Bank. According to the 2001 Census it had a total population of 390, increasing to 461 at the 2011 census.
Notable residents
Harry Atkinson, premier of New Zealand on four occasions during the late 19th century was born in Broxton.
Austin Carr, cricketer, was born at Lower Hall, in Broxton in 1898.
Roger Moore, actor, lived at Broxton Hall during his marriage to singer Dorothy Squires, which lasted from 1953 to 1968.
“Broxton, Cheshire” enters the record as village and civil parish in Cheshire West, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Broxton, Cheshire and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Broxton, Cheshire” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Broxton, Cheshire and village provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2239179. Authority coordinates are 53.083, -2.779. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2011, 1898 and 1953.
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This entry incorporates text from “Broxton, Cheshire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.