Broxted

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Broxted
Essex
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St Mary's Church, Broxted
Location
Grid reference: TL578270
Location: 51°55’12"N, 0°17’37"E
Data
Population: 508  (2011[1])
Post town: Dunmow
Postcode: CM6
Dialling code: 01279
Local Government
Council: Uttlesford
Parliamentary
constituency:
Saffron Walden

Broxted is a village and parish in the Dunmow Hundred of Essex. It is situated seven miles north-east of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and 14 miles north-west of the county town of Chelmsford.

According to the 2001 census it had a population of 526,[2] reducing to 508 at the 2011 Census.[1] 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.[3]

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, 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.

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