Broom, Worcestershire

Description
Broom or Broome, a parish in Worcestershire, 1 mile E of Churchill station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles S of Stourbridge, which is the post town; money order office, Clent; telegraph office, Hagley. Acreage, 731; population, 109. Broom House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £160 with residence. The church is a brick structure, with a tower, and contains a marble figure and tablet by Flaxman to Mrs. Hill.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5