The artistic Cotswold village with an unusually long high street 🗺️
, located in a former inn, is one of the few 17th-century village buildings open to the public and charts Broadway’s evolution. Alongside medieval furniture sit displays about the wool industry, the stagecoach trade, the artists’ colony and a “cabinet of curiosities” like those collected by wealthy Victorian travellers. A “Journey Through Steam” exhibition, recalling the history of the Great Western Railway, runs until 7 May .
, a 17th-century hostelry recommended in the Campaign for Real Ale’s Good Pub Guide for 35 years. It has seasonal beers, an open fire, home-cooked meals and hearty Sunday roasts . There are also five bedrooms upstairs., a “restaurant with rooms” housed in Sir Gordon’s former furniture showroom, has a modern, airy dining area and head chef Jorge Santos conjures up contemporary British cuisine.
A recent mid-range addition to Broadway’s foodie scene is the Flipside diner, offering proper “roll up your sleeves” burgers in award-winning brioche buns, alongside three types of fries, sauces and traditional Sicilian gelati.A popular walk for weekend visitors is the four-mile circular trek up to Broadway Tower, a faux-medieval folly completed in 1798 for the 6th Earl of Coventry. This moderately difficult hike is steep in places and takes two to three hours .
For serious ramblers, the Cotswold Way and Wychavon Way both pass through Broadway. The latter follows a 40-mile linear route to the spa town of Droitwich and can be completed in about four days.Broadway’s High Street is believed to be unusually wide because of the two small streams that used to run each side of it; homes were built on either side of the brooks and the road formed down the middle..
in the garden of Farnham House in 1885, completing it the following year at Russell House. The original hangs in the Tate Gallery in London.
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