BROADWAY, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Evesham district, Worcester. The village stands 3½ miles W of Camden r. station, and 5½ SE by S of Evesham; and has a head post office.‡ The parish comprises 4,800 acres. Real property, £10,343. Pop., 1,566. Houses, 361. The property is much subdivided. The Broadway hills were the quarters of the royalists after the battle of Evesham; and command a fine view. Stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £240.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was built in 1839; and there are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics. A school has £74 from endowment; and other charities, £27. The subdistrict contains sixteen parishes; seven of them electorally in Gloucester. Acres, 28,570. Pop., 6,870. Houses, 1,511.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))