Broadway

Other current and historical names

Bradewei

Built-Up Area: Horton
Parish/Community: Broadway
District/Borough: South Somerset
County: Somerset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°56'3"N 2°58'6"W
Eastings/Northings: 332036, 115426
OS Grid: ST320154
Mapcode Local: GBR M6.PKRB
Mapcode Global: FRA 46NM.Z5M

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Broadway within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Broadway in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Broadway, par. and vil., W. Somerset, 2 miles NW. of Ilminster, 2072 ac., pop. 446.

Broadway in the Domesday Book

A village in Abdick hundred, in the county of Somerset.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Alnoth
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Mauger of Carteret (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1070; 10 shillings in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 3 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ men's plough (1 plough land)
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 4 acres

British Place Names

Broadway, Somerset

Broadway is a village in Horton , Somerset

Broadway in historic gazetteers

Broadway in the Domesday Book