New Brighton is a small hamlet near Minera, in north-east Wales.

Background

This part of Minera parish was originally known as 'City Land', and was bequeathed by Owen Jones (died 1659), a butcher of Chester, to 'the poor of every Company of Merchants and Craftsmen in the City of Chester'. The area was steeply sloping agricultural land until the mid 18th century when a trustee of the charity, Alderman Richardson, encouraged

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