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This famous village is renowned for the length and breadth for its grassy High Street.
It ascends, in a leisurely manner at first but then more determinedly, up to the slopes of Fish Hill on the edge of the Cotswold massif. At the top of this winding gradient is the Fish Inn itself, and a little to the south, Broadway Tower, built in 1797 by Lady Coventry and now part of a country park.
The ‘Cross Hands’ signpost was erected in 1669 by Nathan Izod, on Fish Hill (A44) above the village.
The village itself is extraordinarily pretty, with its old Elizabethan Cotswold stone houses and cottages ranged along the High Street and around the village green.
Some are built in the grand Georgian style, others are of a more lowly origin.
Abbots Grange dates from the l4th century, Tudor House from 1660, and the renowned Lygon Arms, visited by Oliver Cromwell, from 1620. Here you can sample rare cuisine, and then take a stroll around the exclusive gift and antique shops lining the High Street.
Towards the end of the 19th century the Pre-Raphaelite took great interest in Broadway, and at one time the village could almost have been described as an artists' colony.
William Morris, Gabriel
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- Landmark