Description
Broadway, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands on the river Wey, and has a station on the G.W.R., 140 miles from London, and 2 1/2 N by W of Weymouth. The parish includes also Little Moor hamlet and part of Nottingham hamlet. It has a post and money order office under Dorchester; telegraph office, Upway. Acreage, 1051; population, 774. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Bincombe, in the diocese of Salisbury; gross. united value, £337 with residence. Patrons, the Master and Fellows of Caius College, Cambridge. The church is good, and was restored in 1874. A temperance hall was erected in 1879, with 120 sittings and reading and coffee rooms attached. There is also a small Wesleyan chapel.
Parish Church
The church of St. Nicholas is an edifice of stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel with aisle, clerestoried nave, north aisle, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells: the doorways and fonts are Norman, and the oak pulpit Elizabethan: the church was enlarged in 1874 by the addition of a chancel aisle, and in 1902 a south aisle was added and a new organ erected; there are now sittings for 405 persons: in the churchyard is a monument containing two portrait medallions by the celebrated sculptor F.C. Bunyard esq. in memory of his daughter and brother-in-law.
The register dates from the year 1661.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Moor, Little, a hamlet in Broadway parish, Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 miles N of Weymouth.
Nottington, a village in Broadway and Buckland Elpers parishes, Dorsetshire, near the river Wey, 2 1/2 miles N by W of Weymouth. It has a sulphurous spa, but it has fallen into disuse as a medicinal spring.
