Broadwell is a village and

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in the English county of

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. It is about north of

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, In the

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, the parish had a population of 384. decreasing to 355 at the 2011 census.

History

The 1086

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records Broadwell as a property of

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. The

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was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and

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in the 1860s. The church and churchyard contain tombs of the Chadwell family who owned Broadwell Manor from the 16th century. The manor house later passed by inheritance to Mary Chamberlayne who rebuilt it after a fire in 1757. The present 18th century manor building and the church are both Grade II* listed.

Governance

Broadwell is governed locally by a parish council. The

is part of the

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of Fosseridge. the ward is represented on the

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councillor David Cunningham. Since 1992 the village has been represented in Parliament by Conservative MP Sir

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, first within the constituency of

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until 1997,

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until 2024, and then

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. Prior to

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in 2020, the area was part of the South West England constituency of the

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Demography

At the

2001 UK census A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...

, the civil parish of Broadwell had a population of 384. The 2001 population density for the ward of Fosseridge was 0.29 per hectare, with a 100 to 88.6 female-to-male ratio. The proportion of residents who classified themselves as White was 99.2%, a figure higher than those for Cotswold (98.8%), the South West (97.7%) and England (90.9%).

References

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External links

'Parishes: Broadwell', A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 6 (1965), pp. 49-59.
{{authority control Civil parishes in Gloucestershire Cotswold District Villages in Gloucestershire