BROADWOOD-WIDGER, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Holsworthy, Devon. The village stands on the acclivity of a hill, 6 miles NE by E of Launceston r. station, and 11 NNW of Tavistock. The parish comprises 8,780 acres; and its Post Town is Launceston. Real property, £4,343. Pop., 845. Houses, 156. The property is divided among a few. About 1,500 acres are open moorland. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Week-St. Germans, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £148. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is an old edifice, much dilapidated; and there are chapels for Wesleyans and Bible Christians.-The subdistrict contains four parishes, and part of another. Acres, 22,487. Pop. in 1851, 2,461. Houses, 438.

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