Broadclyst is a village and

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in the

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local government district. It lies approximately northeast of the city of

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, England, on the B3181. In 2011 its population was 1,467, reducing at the 2021 Census to 1,552. An

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with the same name exists whose population at the above census was 7,083.

Parish church

Its church is 15th century, with an ancient cross. It has many battlements, pinnacles and gargoyles. According to the

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of ...

, in the year 1001, the manor at Broad Clyst was burned down by Danish invaders.

Communications

On 16 October 1975, the nearby M5 opened and the

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that ran through the village became quiet, later being reclassified B3181. Broadclyst railway station was opened in 1860 by the

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on its London Waterloo to Exeter line. It closed in 1966 but some of the buildings remain.

Amenities and historic buildings

Killerton Killerton is an 18th-century house in Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon, England, which, with its hillside garden and estate, has been owned by the National Trust since 1944 and is open to the public. The National Trust displays the house as a comforta ...

House, a

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property, is close to the village. The Clyst Vale Community College secondary school is located in Dog Village.
Broadclyst Cricket Club
play within the grounds of th
Killerton Estate
They have been playing here since 1974. Churchill Farm is the origin of the name of the Churchill family.

Marker's Cottage

Marker's Cottage, in the Townend part of the village, is a Grade II*

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and a National Trust property, named after Sarah Marker, its resident about 200 years ago. It has cob walls and a thatched roof, and was built in the 15th century with later alterations. Oak screens between the hall and parlour are painted with images, dated stylistically 1470–1510; there is a large stair turret, built in the 17th century."Behind the door of Marker's"
The National Trust. Retrieved 30 April 2019.

Twinning

Broadclyst has been twinned since 2006 with the French village of

Plobannalec-Lesconil Plobannalec-Lesconil (; , before 2001: ''Plobannalec'')Dé ...

, in southern Finistère in Brittany, a link formalised in 2010.

References

External links

Broadclyst Parish Website

Broadclyst at GENUKI

{{authority control Villages in Devon East Devon District