We've been to Broadway a few times never stayed at The Broadway before. Excellent location right next to the green in the heart of the village. We booked a snug room, it was very sizeable, with a large bed , table, a couple of chairs, a full size wardrobe and a full bathroom. We had a gorgeous private patio and was more like a little cottage, I loved it. The only downside was the carpet which was of an outdoor mat material and very painful to walk on. There is a beautiful residents only garden in the rear of the hotel which is a peaceful, tranquil oasis Breakfast was absolutely delicious, an international selection with locally sourced produce . I can recommend the scrambled egg on Sourdough. Service is excellent with polite, friendly and efficient staff. Resident's receive a 15% discount on food! Highly recommend
Broadway
Broadway's High Street is one of the longest village streets in England, and the first thing you notice is that it's genuinely wide — wide enough that the red chestnut trees lining the central green don't feel crowded, and the honey-coloured limestone facades have room to breathe. This is a place that was built for volume: stagecoaches, wool merchants, travellers stopping to change horses before the long haul up Fish Hill.
Up on that hill, visible for miles across the Vale of Evesham, Broadway Tower stands on the second-highest point in the Cotswolds. Below it, the village moves at a pace that makes the 33 pubs it once had feel almost believable.
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People who keep coming back tend to walk up to St Eadburgha Church before anything else — it's the older of the two parish churches, only open in summer, and the field path to it is quiet in a way the High Street rarely is. The Gordon Russell Design Museum is easy to underestimate and worth at least an hour.
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Broadway's story runs deeper than its photogenic surface suggests. Mesolithic flints found during 2004 excavations point to hunter-gatherer activity here thousands of years before the Beaker people settled around 1900 BCE, and Roman occupation followed. The name itself — from the Old English Bradsetena Gamere, meaning 'broad village' — appears in a royal charter of 972, when King Edgar granted land to the Benedictine Monastery at Pershore.
Wool made Broadway prosperous in the Middle Ages; the wide street was built to accommodate the trade. By 1600, it was a busy staging post on the Worcester–London road, once counting 33 public houses. The toll road formalised in 1728, the railway that arrived in 1904 and closed by 1960, and eventually the motor car each reshaped the village in turn — leaving behind the Lygon Arms (first recorded 1532) and a High Street that still reads like a palimpsest of every era.
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The Cotswold hills make for changeable weather year-round; summers are mild and green, though July and August bring the most visitors. Spring arrives gently here, with clear light good for the limestone, and autumn can be sharp and golden — bring a layer regardless of the season.
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What travellers say about Broadway
Top location, good food and drinks. This used to be my favourite spot to eat in Broadwa. Since the restaurant changed hands, they seem to be a bit short staffed, and staff usually looks quite stressed. Very rigid and contained kitchen capacity, makes waits a bit long. Once they even stopped taking orders half way through our large table, leaving half the table with no food.
The room was nice, but definitely on the pricey side. I just can’t get over how terrible the dinner was. Very overpriced and underwhelming. £19 for two tiny sides, lacked seasoning and sauce. Most reviews I read spoke of slow service and that’s why there were lower ratings, not the case for me, service was fine, slow when we wanted to leave only. In a hotel like this you expect expensive, but expensive is okay when you get the full experience. They need someone with passion for good food! The only redeeming part was a good breakfast. I also notice that there is no one commenting or thanking for people’s reviews, this to me is sign that they are checked out or poorly managed. Reviews matter!
A lovely hotel that has a well managed combination of historical and modern architecture and design. We ate in the restaurant where the food was outstanding and the service excellent. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to others and I look forward to my next visit already.
A beautiful hotel we previously stayed at after our wedding 40+ years’ ago. We were bought the Sleep and Treats package by our lovely family. Everything was perfect and special thanks to Claire who made sure everything was perfect. The food was exceptional.
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