Broadwindsor
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Broadwindsor (Template:IPAc-en) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies Template:Convert west of Beaminster. Broadwindsor was formerly a liberty, containing only the parish itself. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,320.<ref name=dcc/> In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with that of the small parish of Seaborough to the north, was 1,378.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The parish church is principally Perpendicular in style, though it has origins in the 12th and 13th centuries,<ref name=WDDC>Template:Cite book</ref> and was rebuilt in 1868.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Thomas Fuller, who wrote The Worthies of England and The History of the Holy Warre, preached here between 1634 and 1650.<ref name=Gant>Template:Cite book</ref>
King Charles II stayed the night in the village on 23 September 1651, after his flight from the Battle of Worcester.<ref name=WDDC/><ref name=Gant/>
The settlement has a long history, with Paleolithic hand axes found to the west on Hursey Comman, a Bronze Age gold strip found just to the north of the village, a Roman fort, Waddon Hill, between Broadwindsor and Stoke Abbott, and a Roman hypocaust from the mid second century found between Broadwindsor and Little Windsor in about 1910.
The parish includes the village of Drimpton.
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Template:Sister projectBroadwindsor.org - launched at the start of Covid 2020 to keep the rural community informed of the ever changing rulesTemplate:Dorset