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Flood News MORE road closures announced by police this afternoon included the B4632 Evesham to Pershore road at Hampton, the B4632 at Broadway, the B4082 Pinvin to Upton Snodsbury road and Brickyard Lane in Drakes Broughton. One elderly resident reported "It was never flooded even when the water levels got really high in 1998," she said. The emergency services have been inundated with calls throughout the day and by early evening were able to respond only to those calls where lives were at risk. 4:42pm Friday 20th July 2007 Huh, should have been there in 1966... now that REALLY was a flood and a blessed 6 days of school. Rivers and streams have been flooding for years. Broadway doesn't usully suffer from houses being flooded. However, it's not unknown for the village to be cut-off due to heavy rainfall. For all its popularity with tourists though, Broadway remains fairly uncommercialised, and exploring the antique shops is a must! And if you're in the vicinity, you really should visit Snowshill Manor nearby too - it's a gorgeous manor house stuffed with a weird and wonderful collection of musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles and armour. The Arts & Crafts-style garden is a haven of tranquillity (and organically-run too!). I love that place!
Great place for 360 panoramic photos. Try Broadway Tower of from the village green. For all its popularity with tourists though, Broadway remains fairly uncommercialised, and exploring the antique shops is a must! And if you're in the vicinity, you really should visit Snowshill Manor nearby too - it's a gorgeous manor house stuffed with a weird and wonderful collection of musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles and armour. The Arts & Crafts-style garden is a haven of tranquillity (and organically-run too!). I love that place! Broadway, The Tower, The Greens, Curiosities and Antique Shops Located in the Cotswolds England Broadway is situated at the heart of the Cotswolds. It got its name because of the wide street and has been a traditional coaching stop for centuries. The town is extremely pretty and so very English. The buildings are made from local honey-coloured stone so characteristic of the area.
The main street consists of many curiosities and antique stores. It is very popular amongst tourists and during the summer months it can be bursting at the seams! With a range of excellent accommodation and restaurants, Broadway provides an ideal base to tour the surrounding area.
Lygon Arms
One of the best known inns in Broadway you will not be disappointed if you stay here. The inn dates back to the sixteenth century and is set in three acres of gardens. You can dine in the superb Great Hall with barrel-vaulted ceiling surrounded by oak panelling and heraldic artefacts all lit by the great open fire. Take afternoon tea on the veranda and sleep in a four poster bed.
This is luxury accommodation with prices to match. Famous guests include Oliver Cromwell and Charles 1.
Abbots Grange
Towards the centre of Broadway is a triangular green overlooked by Abbots Grange. Built in the fourteenth century it retains some of the features from that period.
In the late eighteen hundreds American artist Francis Millet lived here and converted the building into a studio. It was frequented by many English and American artists during the 'Arts and Crafts' movement. They wanted a retreat away from the grimy cities where they could capture the romantic surroundings on canvas. Writings at the time tell us that they led a bohemian lifestyle that was tolerated if not encouraged by the locals!
 Broadway Tower
Overlooking the town is Broadway Hill. This is the highest point in the Cotswolds. The view is magnificent and on a clear day you can see thirteen counties.
Sitting on top of the hill is Broadway Tower, a magnificent English folly. Built by Lord Coventry in 1797, it was used by the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris. You can see some of his famous designs which are still housed in the tower.
Dormy House
This seventeenth century building was originally named 'Willersy Hill Farm'. Originally a farmhouse it was bought by Broadway Golf Club in the 1940's. The name comes from the golfing term for 'unbeatable'.
Today this fantastic building is a hotel and conference centre but it has retained all its charming features. It is worth visiting the iron-age burial ground nearby.
Broadway and the surrounding areas prospered as a result of sheep farming and the rise of the woollen industry. The demand for wool changed the character of the English countryside from forest and woodland to enclosed grassy fields with dry stone walls.
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The limestone hills of the Cotswolds are preposterously photogenic, strewn with countless picture-book villages built by wealthy cloth merchants. Wool was important here as far back as the Roman era, but the greatest fortunes were made between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, during which period many of the region's fine manors and churches were built. Largely bypassed by the Industrial Revolution, which heralded the area's commercial decline, much of the Cotswolds is a relic, its architecture preserved in often immaculate condition. Numerous churches are decorated with beautiful Norman carving, for which the local limestone was ideal: soft and easy to carve when first quarried, but hardening after long exposure to the sunlight. The use of this local stone is a strong unifying characteristic, though its colour modulates as subtly as the shape of the hills, ranging from a deep golden tone in Chipping Campden to a silvery grey in Painswick .
The consequence of all this is that the Cotswolds have become one of the country's main tourist attractions, with many towns inundated by tea and souvenir and antiques shops. To see the Cotswolds at their best, you should visit in winter or avoid the most popular towns and instead escape into the hills themselves. This might be a tamed landscape, but there is good scope for walks, either in the gentler valleys that are most typical of the Cotswolds or along the dramatic escarpment which marks the boundary with the Severn Valley. A long-distance path called the Cotswold Way runs along the top of the ridge, stretching about one hundred miles from Chipping Campden past Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud as far as Bath. A number of prehistoric sites provide added interest along the route, with some - such as Belas Knap near Winchcombe - being well worth a diversion.
There are a few large settlements in this region, the biggest true Cotswold town being Cirencester, a buzzing community dating back to the Romans.
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