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The Wychavon Way

Dec 1st, 2011 by admin

The new Wychavon Way is being launched in the next couple of weeks and the official finishing place of the popular walk will now be the Village Green in Broadway, where a stone monolith will mark the spot.

The Wychavon Way was originally opened to mark The Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. The route used to begin in Holt Fleet, Worcestershire, ending in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, but the revised route will now start in Droitwich Spa. Prior to finishing in Broadway the path crosses the corner of our field in West End where it joins The Cotswold Way National Trail just a few hundred metres from the Village Green.

The Wychavon Way passes through the attractive countryside of the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire’s “heritage garden” through many villages, along streams, through woodland and includes several hills providing lovely panoramic views over the Vale.

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Carbon Offset your Stay in the Cotswolds with Broadway Manor Cottages

Nov 25th, 2011 by admin

Your stay in one of our Cotswold holiday cottages, in the protected landscape of the Cotswolds AONB has a carbon footprint – the quantity of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other climate changing greenhouse gases which are emitted in the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heating and other activities.

You can reduce the footprint of your stay by simply turning off lights and appliances when not in use, fill the kettle with only as much water as you need and by turning off heating when you are not in the room or cottage.

In conjunction with Carbon Footprint, our guests have the opportunity to carbon offset their stay with us by purchasing carbon offsets that support Verified Carbon Standard projects (VCS aims to be the global bench mark standard for project based voluntary emission reductions).

Our guests have the choice of: ‘Pledge a Tree’ in the West Midlands area through a UK Tree Planting Scheme (in conjunction with ‘Tree Appeal’), or reforestation projects in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya.

UK Tree Planting Project

Planting trees is a great way to offset your carbon footprint and become carbon neutral. Through photosynthesis trees absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and wood. By helping to plant a UK tree our guests are helping to:

  • offset carbon dioxide emissions
  • provide valuable wildlife habitats
  • plant native broad-leaved trees
  • enhance the natural UK landscape.

Pledge a Tree in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya

The reforestation activities in the Great Rift Valley are being lead by a small community based project team called Escarpment Environment Conservation Network. All trees that are planted are native to the Great Rift Valley and will be carefully planted and managed so as to live their natural lifespan and meet their biodiversity targets. Each tree planted helps:

  • disadvantaged communities
  • reduce poverty
  • create a brighter future for orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS
  • provide habitats for wildlife
  • offset carbon emissions

If you have any questions or would like further information about carbon offsetting your stay with Broadway Manor Cottages please do not hesitate to contact us. Details of our Cotswold holiday cottages can be found on our website at www.broadwaymanor.co.uk.

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Partnership with ‘Our Land’ – a new Sustainable Tourism Initiative

Nov 23rd, 2011 by admin

We are delighted to announce that Broadway Manor Cottages has recently signed up to the ‘Our Land’ sustainable tourism initiative. The site, www.our-land.co.uk, aims to promote local sustainable tourism businesses such as ours that have a commitment to their local landscapes and communities.

For further information about our environmentally friendly Cotswold holiday cottages in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty visit www.broadwaymanor.co.uk.

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Mary Anderson plays Lady Macbeth in Broadway

Oct 5th, 2011 by admin

93 years ago, during the afternoon of Tuesday 27th August 1918, the Lifford Hall in the Cotswold village of Broadway was full to capacity for an afternoon of music and drama in aid of the Fund for the Relief of Belgian Artists.

Mary Anderson

Arranged by the ‘celebrity’ Amercian stage actress and Broadway resident, Mary Anderson (de Navarro) and fellow American opera singer Murray Davey, the first half included performances of Ede Poldini’s La poupée valsante and Ange Flegier’s Le Cor and pieces by Brahms and Bach performed by a string quartet; Messrs. Désiré Defauw, Lionel Tertis, Emile Dochard and Harold Samuel. Instrumentalists included Lady Sykes and Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon (also a resident of Broadway and Aunt of HRH Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother).

The second half included scenes from Macbeth with Mary Anderson as Lady Macbeth and the American Shakespearean actor Edward Hugh Sothern, who specialised in dashing, romantic leading roles, as Macbeth. They were supported by Miss Hare, Shakespearean actor and director Sir Philip Barling ’Ben’ Greet, Mary’s son Lieut. de Navarro and the English actor Sir John Hare.

During the First World War, Mary Anderson carried out a number of fund-raising performances in London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcester and Evesham and this performance of Macbeth in Broadway met with great acclaim.

Broadway was fashionable amongst artists at the time and had been since the late 1880s when the sleepy picturesque Cotswold village had attracted a number of English and American artists, writers, painters, musicians (the ‘Broadway Colony’).  John Singer Sargent, Francis Millet, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alfred Parsons and Henry James (to name a few) gave Broadway its artistic heritage that visitors today continue to enjoy.

Broadway Manor Cottages

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Sport in and around Broadway

Sep 7th, 2011 by admin

Many of our guests come to Broadway to enjoy walks along the miles of footpaths in the area but others enjoy either spectating or participating in other sporting activities during their stay.

The village has a very fine bowling green at the end of Kennel Lane and a flourishing cricket club on the Snowshill Road near St Eadburgha’s Church, where spectators are welcome to watch some entertaining cricket and enjoy a drink whilst taking in one of the most beautiful places to play cricket in the UK.

Broadway Golf Club has a links style 18 hole course uniquely located 850ft above sea level on top of the Cotswold escarpment. Located at Willersey Hill above the village, the course has exceptional views over the Vale of Evesham and provides a challenge for golfers of all abilities and welcomes non-members.

Teams representing Broadway United Football Club play in the Cheltenham League and Ambassador Evesham Football League. The clubhouse on the Milestone Ground is the only venue in the village that offers Sky Sports, showing most live sporting events. The club also has a darts team and runs various social events throughout the year to which all are welcome.

One of the best ways to enjoy the beautiful Cotswolds hills and wolds is on horseback. There are many riding centres in the area which cater for both the experienced rider and beginner. Broadway is home to the North Cotswold Hunt with kennels in the centre of the village along Kennel Lane. The Hunt organises a Point-to-Point, usually held on Easter Monday, at the nearby village of Paxford. The meet provides an excellent day’s entertainment for the whole family with good views of the racecourse, betting facilities, picnic spaces, trade stands, bars, food stalls, hospitality and children’s amusements.

Fishing or angling is one of the most popular pastimes in the Cotswolds especially in the nearby River Avon. The limestone riverbeds provide an ideal environment for traditional fly-fishing for brown trout or the silver-purple grayling and the local lakes are well stocked with chubb, roach, pike and carp.

A holiday in Broadway is a great opportunity to enjoy the surrounding beautiful landscape through walks or by participating in or just watching some of the many sporting activities that take place in the Cotswolds.

For further information about our Cotswold holiday cottages in Broadway visit www.broadwaymanor.co.uk.

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