BROADWAY, a parish in the upper division of the
hundred of PERSHORE, being the southern extremity of
the county of WORCESTER, 5 miles (S. E.) from Evesham,
containing 1382 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of .the
Bishop of Worcester, rated in the king's books at
£ 10,17. 6., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of Miss Eliz. Mills. The church is dediğ
icated'to St. Eadburgh. There are places of worship for
Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Gather
lies. Thomas Hodges, in 1686, gave land for the itu
struction of poor boys, directing the overplus to be ap?
plied in purchasing books and clothes, or in apprenticing;
them. In the neighbourhood are quarries" of
good freestone.