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Broadway
A Worcestershire village below the escarpment, an old coaching stop with a long High Street, two museums, an artists' history and Broadway Tower on the hill.
- Nearest station
- Evesham, about 6 miles, then the R4 bus on weekdays; or Moreton-in-Marsh and the 1 bus
- Parking
- High Street, off Church Close (short stay, 4 hours for £3), and Milestone Ground (long stay, 10 hours for £4), by RingGo or machine; Blue Badge free
- Best time
- A weekday morning; late November for the steam train shopping evenings
- Toilets
- High Street car park, off Church Close, and Milestone Ground: 8am to 6pm, accessible, with baby change; Changing Places toilet at the High Street car park
- Dogs
- On leads in the park at Broadway Tower, where deer graze, and not in its museum
About Broadway
Broadway is a large village of about 3,500 people at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment in Worcestershire, on the old coach road between London and Worcester. The Cotswold Way comes down into it from Broadway Tower on the ridge above, and it has two museums, an old coaching inn and an old church out in the fields.
The High Street and the Lygon Arms
Broadway grew on the road between Worcester and London. The Lygon Arms, formerly the White Hart, is partly sixteenth-century but was much enlarged early in the seventeenth, and a frieze inside carries the date 1620. It is listed Grade II* and is still a hotel. On Church Street, Abbot's Grange is a fourteenth-century house with its hall, solar and small chapel, private but listed Grade II*, a reminder that Pershore Abbey owned Broadway until the Dissolution. For the inns and hotels, see where to stay in Broadway. Opposite the Lygon Arms, Broadway Deli has served brunch all day since 2002. At 38 to 40 High Street, House of George serves a seasonal lunch from Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 3pm, and Sunday lunch from noon to 4pm, with dinner at Moda, its fine-dining room, from Wednesday to Saturday, 6pm to 8.30pm.
Two museums
The Broadway Museum and Art Gallery, in the Tudor House at 65 High Street, opens Monday to Saturday from 10am to 4.30pm, with last entry at 4pm. Among its paintings is John Singer Sargent's 1892 portrait of Elizabeth Eberstadt. An adult ticket is £10, and under-16s and Art Fund members go free. The building has no wheelchair access.
The Gordon Russell Design Museum, in one of the furniture maker's former workshops on Russell Square, tells the story of the furniture designer and his workshops. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm and on Sundays from 11am to 3pm, and an adult ticket is £8.
The artists
Between about 1870 and 1920 Broadway drew a colony of artists and writers, among them Frank Millet, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alfred Parsons, John Singer Sargent and Henry James, as the Broadway Museum tells it. Millet died on the Titanic in 1912, and in 1932 his son gave the lychgates at the cemetery on Snowshill Road, just south of St Eadburgha's church, in his memory. The American actress Mary Anderson and her husband, Tony de Navarro, bought Court Farm in Broadway in 1894, the Broadway Museum records, and entertained many visitors there.
St Eadburgha's
Broadway's old church, St Eadburgha's, stands out of the village on the Snowshill Road. It is listed Grade I and dates mainly from around 1400, with remains of the late twelfth century. The Victoria County History dates its plain font probably to the twelfth century and its octagonal oak pulpit to the fifteenth. The village church of St Michael, on Church Street, was built in 1839.
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Broadway Tower
On Beacon Hill above the village, at 312m, stands Broadway Tower, a folly of three round turrets finished in 1798 for the 6th Earl of Coventry, designed by James Wyatt from an idea the tower credits to Capability Brown. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones stayed in it. Today it is a family-owned attraction in a park with a herd of red deer, with a museum in the tower, cafés and a Royal Observer Corps nuclear bunker, open for booked tours at weekends, bank holidays and on selected days from April to October. The bunker is reached by a ladder, so it has no step-free access, and tours are for ages 10 and over. William Morris stayed there; see William Morris and the Cotswolds.
From April to October the tower museum opens daily from 10am to 5pm, last admission 4.45pm. From November to March it opens daily from 10.30am to 4pm on weekdays and 10am to 4.30pm at weekends, and everything is closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. In 2026 an adult ticket bought online was £14.82. Its car park, off the A44 about a mile from the village, charges £3 for up to 4 hours and is locked at 5.15pm. Or walk up: the Cotswolds National Landscape's 4-mile circuit from the village climbs to the tower and back by St Eadburgha's, two and a half to three and a half hours, with steep slopes but no stiles. The tower is the last stop of our one-day North Cotswolds trip and of the second day of two days in the North Cotswolds, and three days in the Cotswolds climbs it on the first morning.
When to come
A weekday morning is quietest. The Broadway Arts Festival returns from 11 to 20 June 2027. On Friday 27 November and Friday 4 December 2026 the village holds late-night Christmas shopping, and the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway runs shuttle trains to Broadway from Toddington, on its line from Cheltenham, for the evenings. Our guide to Christmas in the Cotswolds has more for the season. The Cotswolds in winter is a weekend from Broadway built for the short days.
Last verified 1 November 2026 by our editors
Part of
The North Cotswolds
The high wolds between Chipping Campden and Bourton-on-the-Water: the Fosse Way towns, the Windrush villages, the Slaughters and the escarpment at Broadway.
Things to do in Broadway
Historic houses and heritage · Broadway
Broadway Tower
James Wyatt's folly of 1798 on Beacon Hill above Broadway, with a museum in the tower, a red deer park, two cafés and a Cold War nuclear bunker.
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Gordon Russell Design Museum
Museums and galleries · Broadway
A museum of the furniture designer Gordon Russell in one of his former workshops on Russell Square, Broadway, open Tuesday to Sunday, with a ticket that lasts a year.
Rainy days
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Broadway Museum and Art Gallery
Museums and galleries · Broadway
A museum and gallery in Broadway's Tudor House on the High Street, with John Singer Sargent's portrait of Elizabeth Eberstadt among its paintings, free for under-16s.
Rainy days
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Where to stay in Broadway
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The Lygon Arms
Hotel · Broadway
A historic coaching inn on Broadway's High Street, first recorded in 1377, now a hotel with James Martin's Grill and Tavern, a spa with a pool, and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues · EV charging
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Russell's of Broadway
Inn · Broadway
A steak and seafood grill with eight rooms on Broadway's High Street, including a luxury suite and ground-floor rooms, with a full English breakfast included.
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The Broadway Hotel
Hotel · Broadway
A sixteenth-century inn on Broadway's green with 19 rooms and seven cottages, a brasserie with two AA Rosettes, and dogs staying free in some rooms when you book direct.
Dog-friendly
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Abbots Grange
B&B · Broadway
A fourteenth-century house on Church Street, Broadway, said to have been the summer manor of the abbots of Pershore, with ten rooms and suites for adults and a full breakfast.
EV charging
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Foxhill Manor
Hotel · Broadway
An eight-bedroom house on the Farncombe estate above Broadway, run as a small hotel where meals and drinks are included, with the spa at Dormy House and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Hot tubs · Wedding venues
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The Fish Hotel
Hotel · Broadway
Rooms, suites, huts and three treehouses on a hillside of the Farncombe estate above Broadway, with Hook restaurant by Martin Burge and dogs welcome in set rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
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Where to eat and drink in Broadway
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Childswickham Inn and Brasserie
Pubs · Broadway
A village pub and brasserie at Childswickham, about two miles from Broadway, with cask ale and ciders, a daily specials board, a garden and a dog-friendly bar.
Dog-friendly
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Broadway Deli
Cafes and tearooms · Broadway
An independent delicatessen and café on Broadway High Street, opposite the Lygon Arms, open since 2002, serving brunch all day with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices.
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House of George
Restaurants · Broadway
A restored seventeenth-century house on Broadway's High Street with ten bedrooms, a relaxed lunch from Wednesday to Sunday and Moda, its fine-dining restaurant, from Wednesday to Saturday evenings.
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Walks in and around Broadway
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Cotswold Way: Broadway to Wood Stanway
Walk · Starts in Broadway · 3 hrs, 15 mins · Dog-friendly
A 6.5-mile (10.5km) one-way walk on the second section of the Cotswold Way, from Broadway's green, moderate and three to three and a half hours: a long climb to Shenberrow, a steep descent into Stanton, then field paths by Stanway's church and gatehouse to Wood Stanway.
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Snowshill and Snowswood
Walk · Starts in Snowshill · 1 hr, 15 mins · Circular · Dog-friendly
A 2.1-mile (3.4km) circular walk from Pipers Grove car park at Snowshill, short but hilly and moderate, about an hour and a quarter: across the valley to Snowswood, along a byway past Great Brockhamton Farm, back across the stream and into the village past the church.
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Stanton, Snowshill and the edge
Walk · Starts in Stanton · 4 hrs, 30 mins · Circular
A 6.6-mile (10.6km) moderate loop from Stanton of three and a half to four and a half hours, with steep sections and stiles: up the Cotswold Way, through Littleworth Wood to Snowshill and its manor, then back along the top to the Mount Inn, or 2.5 miles by a short cut.
Sights in and around Broadway
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St Barnabas's Church, Snowshill
Sight · Church · Snowshill
St Barnabas is Snowshill's village church, rebuilt in 1864 in coursed stone with a three-stage west tower and a clock, and keeping a fifteenth-century font. It stands beside Snowshill Manor, and it and the cottages round it were filmed for Bridget Jones's Diary. Grade II.
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Kiftsgate Stone
Sight · Monument · Chipping Campden
A small holed standing stone on the Cotswold edge west of Chipping Campden, the meeting place of the hundred of Kiftsgate, where the proclamations of new monarchs were read up to William IV in 1830. A scheduled monument about 30m from the Cotswold Way.
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St Michael and All Angels, Stanton
Sight · Church · Stanton
St Michael and All Angels is Stanton's Grade I church, of the twelfth to seventeenth century, with a spired west tower, medieval wall paintings and a rood loft and east window by Sir Ninian Comper. It stands on Church Lane, by the cross and the Cotswold Way.
Stories about Broadway
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Bridget Jones at Snowshill: the village of her parents
Story · Guides · 4 minute read
Snowshill, above Broadway, was the village of Bridget's parents in Bridget Jones's Diary: St Barnabas church and the cottages round it, what you can see, Snowshill Manor and the lavender, and how to get there.
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Christmas in the Cotswolds
Story · Guides · 10 minute read
Christmas in the Cotswolds: Blenheim's and Sudeley's light trails, Christmas markets at Cogges and Stroud, steam trains to Broadway's late-night shopping, candlelit carols, Boxing Day mummers, winter walks and inns with fires.
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Cotswold pubs and the breweries behind them
Story · Guides · 4 minute read
Donnington, Hook Norton, Arkell's and Wadworth, the newer breweries at Uley and Stroud, the old coaching inns and the village pubs with rooms: a guide to Cotswold pubs.
Getting to Broadway
- By bus
- The 606 from Cheltenham and Winchcombe to Chipping Campden runs every two hours or so, Monday to Saturday. Stagecoach's 1 goes to Moreton-in-Marsh station two or three times a day, Sundays too.
- By train
- Evesham is the nearest station, about 6 miles away, with the R4 bus on weekdays. Moreton-in-Marsh is about 10 miles, with the 1 bus.
- Parking
- The High Street car park, off Church Close, is short stay (4 hours for £3); Milestone Ground and Shear House are long stay (10 hours for £4); 8am to 6pm daily. Blue Badge holders park free.
Access
The Broadway Museum, in a Grade II* building, has no wheelchair access and no accessible toilet. The toilets in the High Street car park, off Church Close, include a Changing Places toilet.
| Snowshill | 3.1 mi |
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| Evesham station | 6.2 mi |
| Chipping Campden | 7.5 mi |
| Moreton-in-Marsh station | 10.6 mi |
Places near Broadway
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SnowshillA tiny hill village above Broadway with Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade's house of extraordinary collections, and lavender fields that flower in midsummer.
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StantonA spring-line village on the Cotswold Way below the escarpment, restored by Sir Philip Stott from 1906, with a Grade I church and a pub at the top of the street.
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Chipping CampdenA wool town with a High Street of honey stone, a 1627 Market Hall, a great wool church and almshouses, and the start of the Cotswold Way on its doorstep.
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EveshamThe market town of the vale, 7 miles below Broadway: the Cotswold Line station with free parking, the R4 bus up Fish Hill to Broadway on weekdays, the abbey's bell tower by the Avon, asparagus from St George's Day to Midsummer, and the Cotswold edge at Broadway and Willersey.