# Tybroughton

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{{Short description|Former Welsh civil parish}}
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'''Tybroughton''', also spelled as '''Ty Broughton''', is a former [civil parish](/source/civil_parish), in the [Maelor Saesneg](/source/Maelor_Saesneg) area of north-east [Wales](/source/Wales), historically in [Flintshire](/source/Flintshire_(historic)) and now in [Wrexham County Borough](/source/Wrexham_County_Borough). The rather isolated rural area contains no [nucleated village](/source/nucleated_village)s, although there are a few small hamlets such as Eglwys Cross.

The name is still used for an electoral [ward](/source/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)) of the [community](/source/community_(Wales)) of [Bronington](/source/Bronington). 

==History==
[[File:Eglwys_Cross_Motte_(Mount_Cop_Castle)_(geograph_4479521).jpg|thumb|right|[Motte](/source/Motte) at Eglwys Cross, Tybroughton.]]
Tybroughton was anciently a [township](/source/township_(England)) (an administrative subdivision) of the parish of [Hanmer](/source/Hanmer%2C_Wales): D. R. Thomas speculated that it was identifiable with the lost manor of 'Burwardestone' mentioned in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book).<ref name=thomas821>Thomas, ''A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph'', 1874, p.821 </ref> The Wrexham historian [Alfred Neobard Palmer](/source/Alfred_Neobard_Palmer) said that the [Welsh language](/source/Welsh_language) place name Tybroughton was recorded as early as 1405 "''and can only mean 'Broughton's House' ''",<ref name=palmer>Palmer, ''Ancient Tenures of Land in North Wales and the Marches'', 1910, p.248</ref> although a mixed Old English and Welsh derivation, "house in the estate (''tun'') by the brook (''broc'')" is possible.<ref name=owen191>Owen and Gruffydd (2017) ''Place-Names of Flintshire'', University of Wales Press, p.191</ref> Writing in the 1950s, placename scholar Ellis Davis claimed that the element ''Ty'' was then pronounced "tie" locally.<ref name=owen191>Owen and Gruffydd (2017) ''Place-Names of Flintshire'', University of Wales Press, p.191</ref>

Tybroughton was recorded in 1699 by the antiquary [Edward Lhuyd](/source/Edward_Lhuyd),<ref name=davies170>Davies, E. ''Flintshire place-names'', 1956, p.170</ref> who pointed out an "''artificial mount''" there called 'Mount Cop' or Eglwys y Groes, probably a [motte](/source/motte). The main landowning family of Tybroughton for many years was called Eddowes, Eddow or Eddowe; they traced descent from a Powysian noble, Tudor Trevor.<ref name=bygones194>"Eddow of Tybroughton", ''Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties'', 1909, 194</ref>

Writing in 1840 the topographer [Samuel Lewis](/source/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)) said the township had a population of 218.<ref name=lewis>Lewis (ed). ''A Topographical Dictionary of Wales'', 1840</ref> It was defined as a separate [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) by the [Local Government Act 1894](/source/Local_Government_Act_1894), but was one of the civil parishes incorporated into the community of Bronington, part of the new county of [Clwyd](/source/Clwyd), under the terms of the [Local Government Act 1972](/source/Local_Government_Act_1972).

==Buildings==

Tybroughton Hall is a [grade II listed](/source/grade_II_listed) house of the late 18th century. 

==References==
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