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Broadwindsor () is a village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
of
Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
in
South West England South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England, regions of England in the United Kingdom. Additionally, it is one of four regions that altogether make up Southern England. South West England con ...
. It lies west of
Beaminster Beaminster ( ) is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the small River Brit. The population of Beaminster parish was recorded ...
. Broadwindsor was formerly a
liberty Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective and context. In the Constitutional ...
, containing only the parish itself.
Dorset County Council Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county counci ...
estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,320. In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with that of the small parish of
Seaborough Seaborough is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is sited in the valley of the River Axe and lies approximately south of Crewkerne in Somerset. The parish was historically in Somerset, part of th ...
to the north, was 1,378. The parish church is principally
Perpendicular In geometry, two geometric objects are perpendicular if they intersect at right angles, i.e. at an angle of 90 degrees or π/2 radians. The condition of perpendicularity may be represented graphically using the '' perpendicular symbol'', ⟠...
in style, though it has origins in the 12th and 13th centuries, and was rebuilt in 1868.
Thomas Fuller Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his ''Worthies of England'', published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and ...
, who wrote ''The Worthies of England'' and ''The History of the Holy Warre'', preached here between 1634 and 1650. King Charles II stayed the night in the village on 23 September 1651, after his flight from the
Battle of Worcester The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 in and around the city of Worcester, England and was the last major battle of the 1642 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A Parliamentarian army of around 28,000 under Oliver Cromwell def ...
. 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 Drimpton is a village in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately northwest of Beaminster and southwest of Crewkerne in Somerset. It lies within the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Broadwindsor. Drimpton is sited on a ...
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List of liberties in Dorset Liberties were an administrative unit of local government in England from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, co-existing with the then operative system of hundreds and boroughs but independent of both, generally for reasons of tenure. Th ...


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Broadwindsor.org
- launched at the start of Covid 2020 to keep the rural community informed of the ever changing rules Villages in Dorset Liberties of Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub https://broadwindsor.org