Broadway, a very old English village
Henry James, an American writer who settled in England and was a frequent visitor to the Cotswolds, described Broadway in 1889 as a “very old English village, lying among its meadows and hedges, in the very heart of the country, in the hollow of the green hills of Worcestershire” and that “much of the land about it are in short the perfection of the old English rural tradition”.
Broadway still delights the visitor. The geese on The Green that James went on to describe may be missing but the village’s ‘broad way’ lined with its red horse chestnut trees and honey-coloured Cotswold limestone buildings, many dating back to the 16th century with some parts of The Lygon Arms appearing to date back to the 14th century, still does not fail to charm visitors to this most picturesque English village.