Taking a Walk Down Broadway

 Thatched shops along the Broadway High Street

Shakespeare Cottages is a collection of four homes built in the 1600's at the end of the High Street

Broadway Hotel built in the 1600's as a coach house located at the beginning of the High Street

Abbey Cottage, built in the 14th century, looking down to St. Mary's Church

We chose Broadway as our base for the Cotswold's as this is where our B&B, Abbey Grange is located. But it was an excellent choice for other reasons as well.  The village is known as the "Jewel of the Cotswold's" as it is regularly voted one of the most beautiful villages in the region.  It has a long and wide High Street with many ancient honey colored limestone buildings lining both sides.  Broadway was a bustling village by the early 1600's as it was ideally situated as a staging stop to change or add horses on the Worcester to London stagecoach route.  At it's peek, Broadway had 38 Inns to take care of all the people passing through and many of those buildings are still in existance today although only three remain as Inns.