Broadwindsor

Broadwindsor
Broadwindsor
	Parish church of St John the Baptist, Broadwindsor
	Comrades Hall, Broadwindsor, in the centre of the village
	Broadwindsor Location within Dorset
Population	1,320
OS grid reference	ST437026
Unitary authority	Dorset;
Ceremonial county	Dorset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Beaminster
Postcode district	DT8
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	West Dorset;
Website	Broadwindsor Village
	List of places UK England Dorset 50°49′08″N 2°47′56″W / 50.8189°N 2.7989°W

Broadwindsor ( /ˌbrɔːdˈwɪnzər/) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies two miles (three kilometres) west of Beaminster. Broadwindsor was formerly a liberty, containing only the parish itself. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,320.^[1] In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with that of the small parish of Seaborough to the north, was 1,378.^[2]

The parish church is principally Perpendicular in style, though it has origins in the 12th and 13th centuries,^[3] and was rebuilt in 1868.^[4] Thomas Fuller, who wrote The Worthies of England and The History of the Holy Warre, preached here between 1634 and 1650.^[5]

King Charles II stayed the night in the village on 23 September 1651, after his flight from the Battle of Worcester.^[3]^[5]

The settlement has a long history, with Paleolithic hand axes found to the west on Hursey Comman, a Bronze Age gold strip found just to the north of the village, a Roman fort, Waddon Hill, between Broadwindsor and Stoke Abbott, and a Roman hypocaust from the mid second century found between Broadwindsor and Little Windsor in about 1910.

The parish includes the village of Drimpton.

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^ ^a ^b "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
^ "Neighbourhood Statistics. Area: Broadwindsor (Parish).Key figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b West Dorset Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District Council. c. 1983. p. 5.
^ Reginald J W Hammond (1979). Dorset Coast (4 ed.). Ward Lock Ltd. p. 43. ISBN 0 7063 5494 X.
^ ^a ^b Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 107–8. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.