Broadway
Major Settlement in the Parish of Broadway
Historical Forms
- Bradsetena gemere c.860 KCD289(iii,396) c.1200
- Bradanuuege 972 BCS1282 c.1050
- Bradeweia, Bradewega, Bradeweye 1086 DB c.1086 EveA 1190 AC 1183 SR 1275
- Bradwey, Bradway 1535 VE 1675 Ogilby
- Brodwey 1554 Marr
Etymology
'Broad road,' but probably not the one familiar to all visitors to Broadway, running east and west, but the older road running north and south past the old church and up the valley. Cf. Birm. Arch. Scc. xliv. 126 ff. The modern form is due to the influence of the independent word broad , cf. Bradway (Db) and Broadway (Herts, So). For Bradsetena cf. s. n. Broadwas supra 104.