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Citation Show another format:  'Parishes: Broadwell', A History
of the County of Gloucester: volume 6 (1965), pp. 49-59. URL:
Date accessed: 30 August 2014.   (Min 3 characters)   Broad well
adjoins Stow-on-the-Wold on the north-west. The ancient parish
covered 1,817 a., (fn. 1) compact in shape and bounded on the
east by the River Evenlode, which at this point formed the
county boundary also until 1935. (fn. 2) The western boundary of
the parish lay on the ridge running north from Stow, following
the ancient saltway from Stow to Evesham for 350 yards and the
Foss Way in two places, and extended into Stow along High Street
to within a few yards of Stow market square before turning east
along the lane towards Well Lane at Parson's Corner; the
southern boundary follows for part of its course the Caudwell
(formerly Queenmoor) brook. (fn. 3) These were the limits of
Broadwell in Saxon times, (fn