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Broome, Worcestershire

Coordinates: 52°24′14″N 2°08′42″W / 52.403964°N 2.145102°W / 52.403964; -2.145102
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Broome
Cottages in Broome
Broome is located in Worcestershire
Broome
Broome
Location within Worcestershire
Population338 (2001)
Civil parish
  • Broome
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTOURBRIDGE
Postcode districtDY9
Dialling code01562
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Worcestershire
52°24′14″N 2°08′42″W / 52.403964°N 2.145102°W / 52.403964; -2.145102

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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