Broadheath, Worcestershire

Broadheath
Edward Elgar's birthplace in Broadheath
Broadheath Broadheath shown within Worcestershire
Population	1,728 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SO8156
Civil parish	Lower Broadheath
District	Malvern Hills
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WORCESTER
Postcode district	WR2
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	West Worcestershire
List of places UK England Worcestershire

Coordinates: 52°12′33″N 2°16′24″W / 52.209171°N 2.273226°W / 52.209171; -2.273226

Broadheath with Lower Broadheath is a civil parish officially known as Lower Broadheath, in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 1,728.^[1] The parish also includes Upper Broadheath, which is about 3 miles north-west of Worcester.

There are many housing estates in the village, including the Jacomb estate (Jacomb Road, Jacomb Drive, Jacomb Close and Rectory Close).

The village has a village hall, church, post office and shop, a village green (containing a football pitch, running track and many children's play areas) and a large village common. There is also a primary school (Broadheath C.E. Primary School). The school contains around 150 children, from the age of four up to eleven. There are also three pubs in the village.

Broadheath is the birthplace of the English composer Edward Elgar.^[2] The cottage in which he was born is now a museum.^[3]

References

↑ "KS101EW Usual resident population". ONS Data Explorer (Beta). Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
↑ Kennedy, Michael (2004), "'Elgar, Sir Edward William, baronet (1857–1934)'", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press), doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32988, retrieved 2 June 2011
↑ Cavendish, Richard (11 November 1994). "The Elgar Birthplace Museum". History Today 44 (11). Retrieved 21 April 2016.

External links

Media related to Broadheath, Worcestershire at Wikimedia Commons
Lower Broadheath official web site.
The Church (photos) at Lower Broadheath. Retrieved 23 May 2009
The Elgar Birthplace Museum
Listing at the Worcester branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry website

Settlements in Malvern Hills District

Towns	Malvern Tenbury Wells Upton-upon-Severn

Villages	Abberley Alfrick Pound Alfrick Astley Bank Street Barnards Green Baughton Bayton Berrow Green Berrow Birts Street Birtsmorton Bockleton Bowling Green Bransford Broadheath Broadwas Brockleton Bushley Callow End Castlemorton Clevelode Clifton-upon-Teme Clifton Cotheridge Croome D'Abitot Crowcroft Doddenham Draycott Dunley Dunstall Common Eardiston Earls Croome Eastham Eldersfield Frith Common Frog Pool Great Witley Grimley Guarlford Hallow Hanley Castle Hanley Child Hanley Swan Hanley William Harpley High Green Hill Croome Hillhampton Holdfast Hollybush Holt Fleet Holt Heath Horsham Kempsey Kenswick Kerswell Green Knighton-upon-Teme Knightwick Kyre Leigh Sinton Leigh Lindridge Little Malvern Little Witley Longdon Lower Sapey Lulsley Madresfield Malvern Wells Mamble Martley Newland Newnham Bridge Noutard's Green Oldwood Pendock Pensax Poolbrook Powick Queenhill Ripple Rochford Rushwick Ryall Rye Cross Sankyns Green Severn Stoke Shelsley Walsh Shelsleys Shrawley Stanford-on-Teme Stockton-on-Teme Stoke Bliss Suckley Upper Broadheath Upper Welland Welland West Malvern Wichenford Wyche

Civil parishes	Civil parishes in the Malvern Hills district

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