Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRONINGTON, or New Fens

BRONINGTON, or New Fens, a township-chapelry in Hanmer parish, Flint; 4½ miles WSW of Whitchurch r. station. Post Town, Hanmer, under Whitchurch, Salop. Acres, 4,850. Real property, £3,908. Pop., 675. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £109.* Patron, Sir J. Hanmer, Bart. The church is indifferent.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bronington Tn/CP       Hanmer CP/AP       Flintshire AncC
Place names: BRONINGTON     |     BRONINGTON OR NEW FENS     |     NEW FENS
Place: Bronington

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