BROXTOW, (Nottinghamshire) or BROCULSTOW, on the N. W. side of Nottingham, was anciently of such note for the meetings of
the people on publick affairs, that it probably gave name to the whose Wapentake. It bel. once to a family of the same
name. In the R. of Hen. VI. Henry, Ld. Grey of Condover was possessed of it: After him it was successively enjoyed by the
Parkers and Whalleys, which last having forfeited it to the crown, in the R. of K. James I. that prince gave it to Sir
Philip Stanhope, Knt. his heirs and assigns, paying 21 l. 4 s. a year rent. Since this it has been in the hands of Byron
and Perkins, which last sold it to Thomas Smith, son of Sir Francis Smith of Leicestershire, who built a fine seat here;
but it was lately sold to Sir Francis Topp, and in the possession of Sir John Topp, his son. This village is reckoned in
the p. of Bilborough.