Description
Broadwell or Bradwell, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands near the ancient Akeman Street, 2 miles W of Alvescot station on the G.W.R., and 4 NNE of Lechlade. The parish includes also the ecclesiastical parish of Filkins, and the township and chapelry of Kelmscott, Post town, Lechlade (S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3559; population of the civil parish, 687; of the ecclesiastical, with Kelmscott, 284. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Kelmscott, in the diocese of Oxford; joint gross yearly value, £200 with residence. The church is cruciform and good, has a fine spire, and contains monuments of the Colstons. Bradwell Grove is a chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
