Description
Broadwell, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the Fosse Way, 1 1/2 mile NNE of Stow-on-the-Wold, and 2 miles WNW of Adlestrop station on the G.W.R. There is a post office under Moreton-in-the-Marsh; money order and telegraph office, Stow-on-the-Wold. Acreage of the civil parish, 1817; population 373; of the ecclesiastical, with Adiestrop, 537. Broadwell House is the seat of the Egerton Leigh family. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Adiestrop, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Patron, Lord Leigh. The church is Early English and Perpendicular, and was restored in 1866 ; it contains an ancient alabaster monument, some brasses, and two stained windows.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
