Broadway has been described as the ‘Jewel of the Cotswolds’ and ‘The Show village of England’ because of its sheer beauty and magnificence’. Its wide grass fringed streets are lined with honey- coloured buildings dating back to the 16th century. Broadway is crammed with some of the countries best art galleries, restaurants and hotels. Standing like a sentinel over the village from the top of Fish Hill, stands Broadway Tower, a much loved retreat of the art and crafts movement including William Morris and Rosetti. The tower forms the highest point of the Cotswolds and from its top you can see 13 counties  and both Worcester Cathedral and Warwick Castle can be viewed, on a clear day.

For  walkers, the Cotswold Way passes directly through the village aprox. 5 miles from its start in Chipping Campden and a network of footpaths joins Broadway to some of the Cotswold’s most beautiful villages.

Broadway is ideally situated for enjoying the delights of the Cotswolds. The villages of Moreton-in-Marsh, Chipping Campden, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-Water, Blockley, The Slaughters, Snowshill and Buckland are all within 15 minutes drive.

On these pages we have listed just a few of the places of interest within easy reach of Broadway. There are several excellent providing further information including:    

                               www.glos-cotswolds.com       www.cotswold.gov.uk     www.cotswolds.info

Oxford, the city of dreaming spires is 50 minutes along the A44 toward London. The golden stone of university buildings with their spires, towers and domes have shaped a graceful and timeless city, which no visitor forgets. Over 900 years as a seat of learning have made Oxford a very special place to visit any time of the year.

The city's history is fascinating. The Romans made Oxford a pottery centre, the Saxon princess Frideswide founded a religious community on the site of Oxford's cathedral, and the Oxenford, the original Saxon crossing point, gave the city its name.

Other places of interest near to Broadway include:

Snowshill Manor - in the village of Snowshill, 5 minutes by car from Broadway.

A Cotswold manor house a mile out of Broadway containing Charles Paget Wade's extraordinary collection of craftsmanship and design, including musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles, weavers and spinners tools and Japanese armour. The grounds contain a beautiful ‘cottage garden’

Stanway house - 7 minutes by car from Broadway in the village of Stanway next to the village of Stanton.

A Superb Elizabethan House and Related Manorial Buildings Stanway house is located near the village of Stanton in the small hamlet of Stanway. It is an outstanding example of an English Jacobethan manor house; built of mellow Cotswold limestone between 1580 and 1640 by the Tracy's of Stanway. It is a unique experience visiting this house because of the friendliness of the resident Lord and Lady Neidpath, who you may meet, and the intimacy of the closeness of their possessions on your walkabout.

Sudely castle - in Winchcombe off the B4632.

Once the property of King Ethelred the Unready, later home of Queen Katherine Parr and garison headquarters of Prince Rupert during the Civil War. The castle houses an impressive collection of furniture and paintings. Surrounded by magnificent award-winning gardens.

 Chedworth Roman Villa - at Yanworth, near Cheltenham.

The remains of one of the largest Roman Villas in the country and set in a wooded Cotswold Combe. Over 1 mile of walls survive and there are several fine mosaics, two bathhouses, hypocausts, a water-shrine and latrine.

Coughton Court - near Alcester about 20 minutes by car from near Broadway

One of the great Tudor Houses, Coughton Court has been the home of the Throckmorton family since 1409. It has important associations with the Gunpowder Plot, about which there is an exibition and also much activity in the Civil War. The house has fine collections of furniture, porcelain, and paintings. The grounds contain two churches, a lake, riverside walk, formal walled garden, and bog garden.

Batsford Arboretum and Cotswold Falconry Centre - on the A44 just outside Moreton-in-Marsh - 55 acres of magical walks in a Japanese setting. Situated near the entrance is the Cotswold Falconry Centre where eagles, owls, hawks and falcons are flown daily.

Gloucestershire Warwickshier Railway offers a scenic 20 mile round trip from Toddington to Cheltenham racecourse including the ‘great tunnel’.