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Broadway is a large village and
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in the
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, England, with a population of 2,540 at the 2011 census. It is in the far southeast of
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, close to the
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border, midway between
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and
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. It is sometimes referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds". Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold
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. The "broad way" is the wide grass-fringed main street, centred on the Green, which is lined with red
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trees and honey-coloured Cotswold limestone buildings, many dating from the 16th century. It is known for its association with the
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, and is in an area of outstanding scenery and conservation. The wide High Street is lined with a wide variety of shops and cafes, many housed in listed buildings. The village also featured in the 2018 video game '' Forza Horizon 4''.


History

Broadway is an ancient settlement whose origins are uncertain. There is documentary evidence of activity in the area as far back as
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times. In 2004, the
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's Worcestershire Young Archaeologists' Club found evidence of early occupation. Their fieldwork uncovered a large amount of
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and
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domestic waste and, most importantly, a large amount of worked Mesolithic flints, raising the possibility that the site might have been a stopping point for
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s. This work makes the known history of the village to be over 5,000 years and so may be evidence of one of the first partially settled sites in the United Kingdom. Broadway has also seen the settlement of the ancient Beaker people (1900 BCE), and later, the Roman occupation. It gained the name ''Bradsetena Gamere'' (Broad Village) around the 9th century and underwent a number of changes until the modern spelling 'Broadway' became common usage in the 16th century. Broadway was a domain of the
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n kings and was vested in
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in the person of King Edgar in 967. The first existing documentary evidence of importance is embodied in a
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that King Edgar granted to the
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Monastery of
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in 972. In this
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text, Broadway is called ''Bradanwege'' and its boundaries are described in great detail. The complete copy of the charter may be seen in the
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(Facsimile Volume III 30). By the 11th century the village was already well established and apparently thriving. It is listed in the
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in Great Domesday folio 175 for Worcestershire as part of the land holdings of the Church of St Mary of Pershore: "The church itself holds ''Bradeweia''. There are 30 hides paying geld. In demesne are 3 ploughs; and a priest and 42 villeins with 20 ploughs. There are 8 slaves. The whole in the time of
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was worth £12 10s 0d; now £14 10s 0d." It continued to prosper, becoming a
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by the 13th century. For Broadway this marked a considerable departure from the entirely peasant community that had existed in former times, though the following two centuries saw it decline in the wake of the
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. Its fortunes were revived during the late 16th century after the dissolution of the monasteries relieved Pershore Abbey of ownership in 1539. The Crown sold the Manor of Broadway in 1558. There followed three centuries of almost unbroken growth, during which the population increased to about five times its
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level. As in other
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towns, wealth was based on the wool and cloth trade. In the first half the 19th century Broadway was part of a short-lived Cotswolds silk industry, centred on Blockley, with a water-powered silk mill. By around 1600 the village had become a busy
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stop on the route from
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to London. The village provided all the services that might be needed, including grooms, places of refreshment and extra horses for the steep haul up Fish Hill. As a result, there were once as many as 33 public houses in Broadway compared to the three which exist today. The road between
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and the summit of Fish Hill became a
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as a result of legislation dated 1728. Tolls were collected at Turnpike House, which can be found (now renamed Pike Cottage) in the Upper High Street. However, the introduction of the railways in Britain in the mid-19th century reduced the passing trade on which Broadway relied. Travel by stagecoach stopped almost immediately with the opening of the railway in Evesham in 1852. Stripped of its role of staging post, Broadway became a backwater; a haven of peace and tranquillity. Victorian artists and writers were drawn to the village's calm and the famous
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made its home in the area. The artists and writers to whom Broadway became home included Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Anderson,
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,
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,
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, Francis Davis Millet,
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,
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and
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. Blomfield lived at Springfield House and is buried in Broadway. Millet died in the sinking of the Titanic aged 65 and is commemorated by a memorial at St Eadburgha's Churchyard, Broadway. In 1932 Millet's son Jack donated £120 to St Eadburgha's Church for the construction of lychgates in his father's memory at the churchyard on Snowshill Road. Broadway is thought (by Sir
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(1903–2000), a Cambridge historian who knew Benson well) to have been the model for a fictional Elizabethan village in the Cotswolds, Riseholme, the home of Lucia in the novels of
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, before she moved to Tilling (based on
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in East Sussex). The arrival of the motor-car at the turn of the 20th century, and the advent of popular tourism, restored Broadway's vitality, placing it now among the most frequently visited of all Cotswold villages. In 1934 J. B. Priestley published his book '' English Journey'', a travelogue in which he re-visits areas of the Cotswolds, including Broadway. He described the Cotswolds as "the most English and the least spoiled of all our countrysides. The truth is that it has no colour that can be described. Even when the sun is obscured and the light is cold, these walls are still faintly warm and luminous, as if they knew the trick of keeping the lost sunlight of centuries glimmering about them." The war memorial on the village green, dating from 1920, marks the deaths of local individuals who died fighting in
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and
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.War Memorial: Broadway (WMR-32244)
War Memorial: Broadway (WMR-32244)
accessdate: 4 March 2021
Broadway takes its name from the wide main street, now High Street (one of the longest in England). By the 18th century, it was a toll road and a prominent stagecoach stop. In the beginning the ‘broad way’ probably began as a drove road and may be unusually wide because of the two small streams that used to run each side of the main street; people built on either side of the brooks, and a road formed down the middle. In the winter, the mud from the road was piled up, and in the summer, grass grew on the piles; these verges still remain today. Water used to flow down from the hills and straight through the village then in later years the streams were mostly hidden inside underground pipes, only emerging at occasional ‘dipping’ points. Nowadays, the streams are almost entirely invisible.


Modern times

Today, Broadway is a centre for arts and
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s. The village's accommodation includes the Broadway Hotel, Russell's "a restaurant with rooms", the 1600s Cotswold inn the Lygon Arms, a caravan site, holiday cottages,
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lodges, old
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including the Swan Inn and Crown & Trumpet, shops, restaurants and tea rooms. Local attractions include the Gordon Russell Design Museum (celebrating the work of the 20th-century furniture maker Sir Gordon Russell MC), the
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Broadway displaying objects from the 17th to the 21st centuries in 'Tudor House' a former 17th-century coaching inn, the
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on its hilltop site in the Broadway Tower Country Park,
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, Snowshill village, Snowshill Manor (owned by the
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), horse riding and, for the many
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, the Cotswold Way. ''Country Life'' magazine provided these insights into the importance of the Russell museum. "In 1903 "Sydney Bolton Russell ordon's fatherbought the inn on the main street, The Lygon Arms, restoring it ... Originally a craftsman in the Arts-and-Crafts mould (although he was later frowned-upon by purists for his willingness to increase output by using machines), Gordon Russell opened a workshop in the village." The village is overlooked by Broadway Hill, the highest point in the northern Cotswolds at above sea level, which is popular with hill walkers.


Churches

The original parish church of Broadway actually lies almost a mile outside of the village. Nevertheless, the Church of St Eadburgha has been a Christian place of worship since the 12th century and continues to be a significant aspect of village life. The dedication of a Christian church to Eadburgha is not common. Eadburgha was the granddaughter of
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. The story is told that as a child Eadburgha was asked to choose between receiving jewels or her own Bible, she chose the Bible. The Church of St Eadburgha is listed as Grade I by
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(Building ID: 400976). The current structure was built but there are elements that remain of the original 12th-century building. The main Broadway parish church is now St. Michael and All Angels, which is listed as
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. It was built in 1839 within the village of Broadway itself. It has a fine wood carved
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transferred from St Eadburgha. The
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place of worship is St Saviour's which is listed as
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(since 2016). The building was constructed as a Benedictine monastery chapel in 1828–1829; it was extended and altered in the 1850s when a school was added, and the interior was modified slightly several times afterwards. The property was converted to a parish church in 2000. The individual primarily responsible for the original development of this facility was Dom John Augustine Birdsall OSB.


Broadway railway station

Broadway was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened in 1904 by the
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and running from
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to
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, part of a main line from
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to the South West and
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. Broadway railway station along with almost all others on this section closed in 1960; though passenger services continued until 1968, and goods continued until 1976 when a derailment south of
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damaged the line. It was decided not to bring the section back into use and by the early 1980s, it had been dismantled. Thus, although Broadway has a railway station site and a Station Road, it is no longer served by
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services. The nearest railway stations are
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, Honeybourne and
Moreton-in-Marsh Moreton-in-Marsh is a market town in the Evenlode Valley, within the Cotswolds district and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England. Its flat and low-lying site is surrounded by the Cotswold Hills. The River Evenlode r ...
, on the main line train service running between
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and London
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and on the
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between
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and
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.


Heritage railways

The 15-mile stretch between Broadway Station and
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has since been reconstructed and reopened as the
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. The line was extended northwards to the village, and Broadway is its current northern terminus, opening in 2018. Though nothing remained of the original Broadway railway station, the Broadway Area Group of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Trust received planning permission to reconstruct the station. Work started in 2009, rebuilding the platforms, signal box, railway station buildings and footbridge. The Trust completed the laying of tracks on 23 December 2017, with a test train arriving at Broadway later the same day, and had passenger services running from 30 March 2018. In addition, the now disbanded Stratford upon Avon and Broadway Railway Society aimed to re-open the northern part of the line from Broadway to Stratford-upon-Avon. This was a long-term project and, initially, the society concentrated on the short stretch from
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to Long Marston. Nonetheless, reaching Stratford-upon-Avon (via Honeybourne) remains the GWR Trust's main dream and official goal for the future, although no longer easily achievable, owing to a road obstruction between Stratford-upon-Avon Racecourse and the station itself.


References


External links

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Broadway Fire Brigade history

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