BROADWAY, a village and a parish in Chard district, Somerset. The village stands near the Chard canal, and near the Chard, Ilminster, and Taunton railway, 2 miles NW of Ilminster r. station; took its name from a Roman way across its site, and through Neroche forest; and has a fair on 14 Sept. The parish includes also the tythings of Capland and Rapps; and its Post Town is Ilminster. Acres, 2,072. Real property, £2,861. Pop., 431. Houses, 89. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £167. Patron, the Rev. Dr. W. Palmer. The church is ancient and cruciform. There are an Independent chapel; and charities £23.

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