Description

Broadway, a village and a parish in Somersetshire. The village stands near the Chard Canal, 2 miles NW of Ilminster station on the G.W.R., took its name from a Roman way across its site and through Neroche Forest, and has a fair on 14 Sept. The parish includes also the tithings of Capland and Rapps. Its post town is Ilminster, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2056; population of the civil parish, 332; of the ecclesiastical, 372, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, ?165 with residence. The church is ancient and cruciform. There is a Congregational chapel.