{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = Wales | static_image = Halghton Hall.png | static_image_caption = Halghton Hall, depicted in 1794 | coordinates = {{coord|52.964188|-2.846966|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Halghton | welsh_name = Halchdyn | population = | population_ref = | community_wales = Hanmer | unitary_wales = Wrexham | lieutenancy_wales = Clwyd | constituency_westminster = Clwyd South | constituency_welsh_assembly = Clwyd South | post_town = WHITCHURCH | postcode_district = SY13 | postcode_area = SY | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = }}
'''Halghton''' ({{langx|cy|Halchdyn}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Standardised Welsh Place names |url=https://www.welshlanguagecommissioner.wales/standardised-welsh-place-names |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.welshlanguagecommissioner.wales |language=en-GB}}</ref>) is a dispersed settlement and former civil parish in the east of Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is part of the community of Hanmer.
==History== Halghton is probably identifiable with the vill of "Hulhtune" noted in a 1043 charter of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, in which he bestowed a number of vills around Hanmer on his newly created monastery at Coventry.<ref name=stchad>[https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/a110/tourism/st-chad-church-and-well/ St Chad Church and Well], Parish of Hanmer and Tallrn Green</ref>
The placename was again recorded in 1295 as "Halcton", and as "Halghton" as early as 1334.<ref name=davies83>Davies, E. (1959) ''Flintshire Place-names'', UWP, p.83</ref> The name is of Old English origin, and means "farm (''tun'') in a corner of land (''healh'')".<ref name=wcbc>[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/collections/CPATabstracts/cpat15673.html Halghton], Wrexham Sites and Monuments Record, accessed 15-05-18</ref> From medieval times up until the 19th century Halghton was a township of the old parish of Hanmer, in the area of Flintshire known as the Maelor Saesneg.<ref name=vob>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2436 History of Halghton, in Wrexham and Flintshire], Vision of Britain, accessed 15-05-18</ref> The settlement never gained a church or point of focus, remaining dispersed across several kilometres.<ref name=wcbc/> Despite this it shows a long settlement history, including four moated sites, the site of a fulling mill recorded in the 15th century, and tracts of medieval ridge and furrow.<ref name=wcbc/> Under the 1866 Poor Law Amendment Act, the township of Halghton became a civil parish, while subsequent to an 1894 Act the civil parish became part of the Overton Rural District. When the latter along with Flintshire was abolished in 1974 Halghton became a ward of the community of Hanmer.
==Notable buildings== The Grade I listed Halghton Hall is a small brick-built gentry house of 1662, with evidence of an earlier medieval core.<ref name=coflein>{{Coflein|num=35862 |desc=Halghton Hall |mode=cs2}} accessed 15-04-18</ref><ref name=blb>[https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300001641-halghton-hall-hanmer Halghton Hall], British Listed Buildings</ref>
Halghton Mill is a former corn mill, built in around 1802 and supplied with water through a leat from the Emral Brook.<ref name=coflein2>{{Coflein|num=24910 |desc=Halghton Mill |mode=cs2}} accessed 15-05-18</ref> Nearby are an early 18th century house and a former smithy, also of historic interest.
==Notable residents== *John Hanmer, a patron of the poet Guto'r Glyn and one of the main Lancastrian supporters in North Wales during the Wars of the Roses: his house at Halghton was said to have been burned in 1463 by the Yorkist Duke of Norfolk and Lord Powis. *Roger Brereton, Member of parliament for Flint Boroughs between 1604 and 1611.<ref name=hopo>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/constituencies/flint-boroughs Flint Boroughs], History of Parliament Online</ref> *Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, who lived for a time at Halghton in his mother's dower house
==References== {{reflist}} {{Wrexham}}
Category:Populated places in Wrexham County Borough