66 BROADWAY.

There is a school here with forty or fifty children, and a school-bouse has been erected within the last six years at a cost of £300, but as the parish is too small to obtain a certificated mistress there is no Government grant, our governors in their educational policy adopting the principle of "to him that hath shall be given." It is clear that the Government system of grants operates partially and unjustly in the case of small

parishes.

Among the old names here are Ellbatch, Graffridge, Petchwick, The Hale, and Cainsbury. The termination of Broadwas is a very rare one in the names of parishes, but in each instance the place is situated on the bank of some river.

Broadway.

LIES under a semicircle of well-wooded hills, south and west, affording lovely views of Worcestershire scenery, especially from the Beacon-hill. A long wide street of massive stone houses, with mullioned windows, suggestive of some antiquity, formed the highway from Worcester to London before the "iron horse" began his career; but now neither coach nor waggon finds its way through the village - at least but rarely. The name of the place is indicative of "a great road," for such it was at an early period. Habingdon says: " The village is the broad and high way from the shepherds' cotes on the mounted wolds down to the most fruitful vale of Evesham." A large portion of the old town, however, seems to have stood in the Bury-end Road (now covered with turf), leading to the old church. There is an interesting example of an abbot's manor-house in the village (the manor formerly belonging to Pershore Abbey), also an ancient grange, and the principal inn has the date of 1620 upon it. There is a population of nearly