Broadwell, Warwickshire
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 Broadwell village green |
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| Broadwell shown within Warwickshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP 451 657 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | CV23 |
| Police | Warwickshire |
| Fire | Warwickshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
Broadwell is a village in Warwickshire, England in the civil parish of Leamington Hastings at grid reference SP 451 657 roughly midway between Dunchurch and Southam on the A426 road.
In 1086, the Domesday Book records that the chief estate of Leamington was held by Hasculf Musard.
Broadwell (like the neighbouring villages of Leamington Hastings, Hill and Kites Hardwick) was once a manor in its own right. Joan Hastang (of the family whose name is borne by Leamington Hastings) was allotted Broadwell in 1375. According to Prof. Louis Salzman's History of the County of Warwick, the ...last mention of Bradwell (sic) as a separate manor is in the inquisition post mortem on Humphrey Stafford in 1545.
Broadwell is one of three villages of that name in central England. The other two are in Gloucestershire – one between the towns of Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold, the other a few miles west of Lechlade on the upper River Thames.
The villages in Leamington Hasting parish are farming settlements. Today, there is a mix of sheep and arable. However, Salzman records that much of arable land had once been pasture. This is borne out in Mr Sponges's Sporting Tour written in 1853 by R.S. Surtees which refers to: ... the wide-stretching grazing grounds of Southam and Dunchurch.
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