Broadway Tower in the Cotswolds
Wednesday, 18 November 2020 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien Category/Kategorie: General , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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Broadway Tower is a
folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of
Broadway , in the English county of
Worcestershire , at the second-highest point of the
Cotswolds (after
Cleeve Hill ). Broadway Tower’s base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high. The tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of the Broadway Tower Country Park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee, as well as a gift shop and restaurant. The place is on the
Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the
A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village.
The ‘Saxon’ tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle , and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–1799. The tower was built on a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
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For some years, the tower became home to the
printing press of Sir
Thomas Phillipps . By the mid-1870s, it was being rented by C J Stone and Cormell Price, the latter being headmaster of the
United Services College at
Westward Ho! , and a close friend and confidant of artists
William Morris ,
Edward Burne-Jones , and
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : “I am up at Crom Price’s Tower among the winds and the clouds” Morris wrote in a letter to
Aglaia Coronio in the summer of 1876.
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an
A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943. In the late 1950s, Broadway Tower monitored
nuclear fallout in England; an underground
Royal Observer Corps bunker was built 50 yards (46 m) from the Tower. Manned continuously from 1961 and designated as a master post, the
bunker was one of the last such
Cold War bunkers constructed and, although officially stood down in 1991, the bunker is now one of the few remaining fully equipped facilities in England.
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