Broadway is one of the most beautiful Cotswold villages, situated at the Gateway to the Cotswolds  It has a wide high street lined with horse chestnut trees,  contains a mixture of period houses and picturesque honey coloured Cotswold stone cottages which have lured visitors for centuries. The street through Broadway was an ancient 'ridgeway' and and the main road from Worcester to London. It remains a wide street or 'broad way' hence the name.