Broome, Worcestershire

Broome

Broome
Broome shown within Worcestershire
Population	338
Civil parish	Broome
District	Wyre Forest
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stourbridge
Postcode district	DY9
EU Parliament	West Midlands

Broome is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 338.^[1] The village is situated just south of the border with West Midlands and includes the village of Broome as well as the hamlets of Hackmans Gate and Yieldingtree.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Broome like this:

BROOM, a parish in Kidderminster district, Worcester; 1 mile E of Churchill r. station, and 3½ S of Stourbridge. Post Town, Churchill, under Kidderminster. Acres, 716. Real property, £1,726. Pop., 118. Houses, 24. The property is divided among a few. Broom House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £320.* Patron, J. G. Bourne, Esq. The church is a brick structure, with a tower; and contains a marble monument by Flaxman.^[2]

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Settlements in the Wyre Forest district
Towns	Bewdley Kidderminster Stourport-on-Severn
Villages	Areley Kings Astley Cross Axborough Blakedown Blakeshall Bliss Gate Broome Caunsall Chaddesley Corbett Churchill Clows Top Cookley Drayton Franche Heightington Kingsford Pound Green Ribbesford Rock Rushock Shenstone Shatterford Stone Tanwood Upper Arley Wolverley
Civil parishes	List of civil parishes in the Wyre Forest district

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