BROUGHTON, a township, in the parish of HAWARDEN, hundred of MOLD, county of FLINT, NORTH WALES, 2 miles (S. E.) from
Hawarden, containing 397 inhabitants. According to Mr. Pennant, this place was held, prior to the Conquest, by one
Levenot, a freeman; and after that period it was possessed, under the name of Brochetune, by Robert de Roelent, or
Rhuddlan, who held it under Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and who had also a manor here, once owned by a Saxon named Ulmer.
Part of the Warren mountain, in this township, was enclosed pursuant to an act of parliament obtained in 1798. A chapel
has been erected here, which is a chapel of ease to the rectory of Hawarden.