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 [...]
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Posted in Cotswolds, Heritage on Oct 5th, 2011
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. Arranged by the ‘celebrity’ Amercian stage actress and Broadway resident, Mary Anderson (de [...]
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Posted in Heritage on Oct 4th, 2010
Henry James, an American writer who settled in England and was a frequent visitor to the Cotswolds, described Broadway in 1889 as a ‘very old English village, lying amongst its meadows and hedges, in the very heart of the country, in the hollow of the green hills of Worcestershire’ and that ‘much of the land [...]
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Posted in Cottages, Gardens, Heritage on Sep 29th, 2010
The dates for the 2012 Broadway Arts Festival have been announced: the 2012 Festival, dedicated to John Singer Sargent RA and the work and gardens of Alfred Parsons RA will take place in Broadway, the Cotswolds, from Friday 8th – Sunday 17th June 2012. A popular event in Broadway, the 2010 Festival attracted more than 5,000 [...]
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Posted in Heritage on Jun 24th, 2010
The first Broadway Arts Festival dedicated to John Singer Sargent RA and the Broadway Colony came to a close on Sunday 20th June after 10 days of fantastic exhibitions, theatre performances, live music, a celebrity cricket match, various talks and tours. The Festival attracted interest and visitors from as far away as Australia, Japan and [...]
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