http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk Cotswold Holiday Cottages in Broadway. Our blog, keep up to date with our news and events in The Cotswolds Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:20:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At Broadway Manor Cottages in the Cotswolds we encourage wildlife and wild and native flowers in our grounds, avoiding the use of  insecticides and pesticides, so a few weeks ago when Help Save Bees appealed on Twitter for favourable locations, such as orchards, for beekeepers to keep honey bees, we replied to see ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/06/06/cotswolds-beekeeping/ Cotswolds, uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. We have been delighted to see the sunshine at Broadway Manor Cottages this week. The arrival of warmer temperatures has led to a stunning display of beautiful large flower blooms in the grounds. http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/05/26/passiflora-in-the-cotswolds/ Broadway Manor Cottages has been shortlisted for two 2010 Worcestershire Welcome Awards. Located in the peaceful extensive grounds of a Cotswold Manor House dating back to the 16th century the cottages, located on a quiet rural lane in Broadway, have been shortlisted in the Stunning Self-Catering category. The business’s dedication ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/05/18/worcestershire-welcome-awards/ My casual interest in gardening grew after obtaining an RHS Certificate in Horticulture which then led me to a qualification in Garden Design in 2005. During my studies I studied many great British garden designers including Alfred Parsons, Gertrude Jekyll (who was famous for her herbaceous borders and greatly influenced by the ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/04/28/alfred_parsons_broadway/ April 2010, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. On Saturday 10th April 2010 we welcomed three new residents to Broadway: Mrs Pepperpot (a Speckledy hen), Amber (a Cotswold Legbar) and Clara (a White Sussex). The girls have settled in well and we hope to be supplying our Cotswold holiday cottages with their eggs in ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/04/12/cotswold-legbar-chicken/ An exciting and unique exhibition of the work of John Singer Sargent RA and the Broadway Colony will be taking place in Broadway in the North Cotswolds during the 2010 Broadway Arts Festival. The Exhibition will be held at Trinity House, 67 High Street, Broadway, from Friday 11th to Sunday 20th June 2010. Exhibits will ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/03/24/exhibition-john-singer-sargent-broadway/ Broadway, the Cotswolds, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. In June this year the inaugural Broadway Arts Festival will be taking place in the picturesque Cotswold village of Broadway. The 2010 Festival will run from Friday 11th to Sunday 20th June and will include a number of family friendly art, music and ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/03/07/broadway-cotswolds-family-holidays/ The Broadway Arts Festival in June 2010 will celebrate Sargent’s world-famous painting, Broadway's artistic heritage and the village's link with a number of artists, writers and musicians. The Lygon family, who were bestowed the title of Earl Beauchamp in 1815, were one of the many families in Broadway’s past who ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/03/05/broadway_arts_festival/ A group of thirty pupils has been recruited for the Oundle AfricaLink Community Aid Project July 2010 project in Mozambique. Depending on how much they are able to raise, the project has three goals: A bridge and walkway over a mangrove swamp that will allow easier access to the Mashungu clinic ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/03/01/oundle-africalink-community-aid-project-2010/ 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 ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/02/14/broadway-cotswolds/ Today, 198 years ago, on 7th February 1812, Charles John Huffam Dickens was born. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens was one of the most popular authors of the Victorian era. Dickens first started writing when he became a reporter, writing for London newspapers and magazines. Dickens went on to write a great ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/02/07/dickens_barnard_broadway/ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Dry stone walls are ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/01/31/drystonewallingcotswolds/ The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway ('The Honeybourne Line') is a fantastic steam railway that currently runs from Toddington (approximately 5 miles from our Cotswold holiday cottages in West End, Broadway) to Cheltenham Racecourse through the picturesque Cotswold countryside. The route from Toddington to Cheltenham is a 20-mile round trip.  From Toddington the line passes ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/01/25/gloucestershire-warwickshire-steam-railway-a-great-day-out/ The inaugural Broadway Ars Festival will be held in Broadway in the North Cotswolds from Friday 11th to Sunday 20th June 2010. The 2010 Festival is dedicated to John Singer Sargent RA and the Broadway Colony. On Sunday 3rd January 2010, The Independent on Sunday highlighted the Festival as a must-see attraction for ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/01/21/broadway-arts-festival-june-2010-a-great-summer-attraction-in-the-cotswolds/ 2009 A Year for Awards,  A New Year, New Names and New Features,  Green Tourism,  Festivals and Special Offers. See our website www.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk for more details. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/01/17/january-2010-newsletter/ January 2010 _______________________________________________________________________________________ http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/01/09/broadway-in-the-snow-january-2010-video/ Snow started to fall on Broadway during the afternoon of Tuesday 5th January 2010. Further snow fell overnight transforming the village into a winter wonderland by the following morning. I couldn't resist the temptation to take some photos and I have compiled a video with some of them. I hope you enjoy ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2010/01/09/broadway-in-the-snow-january-2010/ Broadway Manor Cottages receives Heart of England 2009 Excellence in Tourism Silver Award The  Heart of England Excellence in Tourism Awards 2009 celebrates the cream of the West Midlands' tourism industry. The annual awards were announced at a ceremony at Birmingham's ICC on 29th October 2009 hosted by BBC presenters Suzanne Virdee and Nick ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/12/15/2009-excellence-in-tourism-silver-award/ Broadway Manor Cottages receives a Silver Award from the Green Tourism Business Scheme  Broadway, Worcestershire, 14th December 2009 Broadway Manor Cottages is the first self catering holiday cottage business in Worcestershire to be awarded a prestigious SILVER grading by the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) reflecting their dedication to sustainability and green tourism. The ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/12/15/press-release-broadway-manor-cottages-receives-a-silver-award-from-the-green-tourism-business-scheme/ 2, The Willows is our Cotswold holiday cottage that sleeps 4, located in the corner of a quiet courtyard in the extensive grounds of a Cotswold manor house in Broadway, which dates back to the 16th century. Since we started renting out the cottage in October 2006 we have made a ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/11/29/2-the-willows-cotswold-holiday-cottage-broadway-the-cotswolds/ It's been a warm sunny September in the Cotswolds this year, ideal weather for a walk in the surrounding beautiful English countryside, so last Saturday afternoon I decided to try out one of the new Cotswold Way Circular Walks from Winchcombe to Belas Knap and back. The route, just over ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/09/25/cotswold-way-circular-walk-winchcombe-and-belas-knap/ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=\\\'" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js\\\' type=\\\'text/javascript\\\'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3469578-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {} Due to the cold winter and mild spring, we have just harvested a ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/09/01/a-bumper-year-for-damsons/ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=\\'" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js\\' type=\\'text/javascript\\'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3469578-2");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {} The Stables, our delightful 2 bedroom Cotswold holiday cottage in Broadway, which was lovingly refurbished and redecorated at the ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/07/17/the-stables-4-star-self-catering-cottage-receives-gold-award/ Great news: our self catering holiday apartment in The Cotswolds was inspected by Quality in Tourism on Friday 5th June and the apartment was awarded 4 stars, its character and location being particularly noteworthy. Rafters is a fully self-contained apartment situated on the first floor above a converted stone coach house ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/06/06/rafters-a-delightful-4-self-catering-apartment-in-the-cotswolds/ As Britain prepares for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, on a Cotswold hill between Broadway and Chipping Campden, on Friday 29th May 2009, the oldest Olimpick Society in the world, Robert Dover's Games Society held its own Games.  In mounting their bid for the 2012 Olympics the British Olympic ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/05/31/cotswold-olimpicks-dovers-hill-friday-29th-may-2009/ http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/05/26/28/ Broadway, a picturesque village in The Cotswolds, is holding its first Arts Festival in June 2010.  The Festival is dedicated to John Singer Sargent RA and will celebrate one of his most famous (and finest) paintings: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose  which was painted in a Broadway garden in the mid ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/05/25/broadway-arts-festival-2010-john-singer-sargent-ra-1856-1925/ Technorati Profile http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/05/15/blog-update/ Cotswold Holiday Cottages in Broadway, May 2009.  May is a great month to visit The Cotswolds.  The weather is warm now spring is well and truly underway, the skies are often blue, the grassy wolds are green, bluebells carpet the woodlands and the fields are full of frolicking spring lambs. Our three delightful Cotswold holiday ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/05/01/cotswold-holiday-cottages-in-broadway-the-cotswolds/ 2, The Willows, Cotswold Holiday Cottage, Broadway, The Cotswolds - Double Bedroom, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. Our three holiday cottages at The Willows are individually furnished and decorated with a four-poster bed in each cottage. In the main bedroom of our 2 bedroom cottage, 2, The Willows, there is a white painted ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/04/21/2-the-willows-cotswold-holiday-cottage-broadway/ Sheldon Shield of 1768, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. It is recorded in the Worcester County Archives that in 1539, at the time of the Dissolution of the Monastries, Ralph Sheldon, son of Baldwin and Jane Sheldon, acquired several acres of land at West End, Broadway, from John Stonywell, a ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/04/18/history-of-the-manor-house-broadway-the-sheldon-connection/ Spring Flowers at Broadway Manor Cottages, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. Spring is a lovely time to take a walk around the the gardens surrounding The Willows Cottages and Rafters apartment at The Manor House. On the banks of the monastic fishery you will find a mass of pale yellow ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/04/17/spring-flowers-and-blossom-at-broadway-manor-cottages/ Our Dorset sheep and lambs, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. After a number of requests; here is an update and photo of Muffin and Cookie. The twin ewe lambs were born on Saturday 4th April, West End, Broadway. After a bit of a shaky start and a few bottles of milk ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/04/15/our-dorset-lambs/ 1, The Willows - Cotswold holiday cottage, originally uploaded by Broadway Manor Cottages. Our Cotswold holiday cottage 1, The Willows has a delightful main bedroom with a fabulous antique double four-poster bed. We provide all bedding (pillows and duvets) and crisp white bed linen and fluffy white towels to make your ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/04/12/1-the-willows-cotswold-holiday-cottage-broadway-the-cotswolds/ The following article appeared in Vogue, 1st October 1915:  Beautiful Broadway - in Worcestershire 'In Tudor Days a Road of Inns - Now the Setting of a Cosmopolitan Colony of Artists and Musicians. Fringed by the purple Cotswold Hills in the country known to all Americans who motor to Stratford-on-Avon and ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/04/09/russell-house-broadway-and-francis-millet/ St Eadburgha's Church (a Grade 1 listed building) is located on the Snowshill Road, Broadway, about 3/4 mile south of the centre of the village opposite Coneygree Lane (see yesterday's blog) a lovely 5 minute walk from our Cotswold cottages at West End. The present church of St Eadburgha's dates back ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/02/09/st-eadburghas-church-broadway-and-francis-davis-millet-1846-1912/ What a fantastic weekend for sledging on the Cotswold hills.  The snow has lasted and it looks like more will fall in the next couple of days.  The snow is so deep on the hills around us that neighbours had to use a quad bike to get out and about on ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/02/08/a-snowy-weekend-in-the-cotswolds/ As forecast it snowed heavily in Broadway today.  Large snowflakes fell for most of the day and by the end of the afternoon several inches covered the village and the grounds of The Manor House in a thick white blanket.  Early in the morning, we refilled the bird feeders here at Broadway Manor ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/02/02/snow-snow-snow/ A few flakes of snow fell on Broadway late Sunday afternoon,  just a light dusting - not as much as forecast, well not so far.  Snow adds a magical touch to The Cotswolds.  Remember the snowy village scenes in the Bridget Jones films?  They were filmed in the village of Snowshill, a pretty Cotswold ... http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/02/02/snow-in-the-cotswolds/ Broadway Manor Cottages - a family run holiday cottage business.  Cotswold cottages in the picturesque Cotswold village of Broadway. http://blog.broadwaymanor-cottages.co.uk/2009/02/01/hello-world/