Broadwell, Cotswold

Broadwell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Stow-on-the-Wold, In the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 384.[1] decreasing to 355 at the 2011 census.[2]

Broadwell
Broadwell
Broadwell Location within Gloucestershire
Population	355 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SP2027
Civil parish	Broadwell
District	Cotswold
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Ceremonial county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Moreton-in-Marsh
Postcode district	GL56
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	The Cotswolds

The Church of England parish church of Saint Paul was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and restored in the 1860s.[3]

Governance

Broadwell is governed locally by a parish council. The civil parish is part of the ward of Fosseridge. As of 2020 the ward is represented on the Cotswold District Council by Conservative politician Julian Beale.[4]

The village is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of The Cotswolds. It elects one MP by the first past the post system of election. Since its creation for the 1997 general election, The Cotswolds (formerly known as Cotswold) has been represented at Parliament by Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown. Prior to 1997, Broadwell was part of the constituency of Cirencester and Tewkesbury. The village is also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.[5]

Demography

At the 2001 UK census, the civil parish of Broadwell had a population of 384.[1] The 2001 population density for the ward of Fosseridge was 0.29 per hectare, with a 100 to 88.6 female-to-male ratio.[6][7] The proportion of residents who classified themselves as White was 99.2%, a figure higher than those for Cotswold (98.8%), the South West (97.7%) and England (90.9%).[8]

References

Footnotes

1. "Area: Broadwell CP (Parish) — Parish Headcounts", Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, archived from the original on 10 September 2012, retrieved 30 July 2011
2. "Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
3. Verey 1970, p. 136.
4. "Julian Beale". Cotswold District Council. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
5. "Parishes Within Cotswold", gloucestershire.gov.uk, Gloucestershire County Council, archived from the original on 20 March 2012, retrieved 30 July 2011
6. "Area: Fosseridge (Ward) — Population Density (UV02)", Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, archived from the original on 10 September 2012, retrieved 30 July 2011
7. "Area: Fosseridge (Ward) — Key Figures for 2001 Census: Census Area Statistics", Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, archived from the original on 10 September 2012, retrieved 30 July 2011
8. "Area: Fosseridge (Ward) — Ethnic Group (UV09)", Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, archived from the original on 10 September 2012, retrieved 30 July 2011

• The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.

Sources

• Verey, David (1970). The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 136–137. ISBN 0-14-071040-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

Media related to Broadwell, Cotswold at Wikimedia Commons

• 'Parishes: Broadwell', A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 6 (1965), pp. 49-59.