Broadway Tower

20/11/2015

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Find out more about the Capability Brown Festival 2016, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

07/03/2015

On top of the world today, we are going underground from Easter with the new Broadway Tower Cold War Experience. Check it out, not long to go now.

30/12/2014

Fancy starting the New Year with a new job? Get involved with our buzzing team at Broadway Tower and check out our job opportunities on
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We are recruiting for retail, cafe staff and nuclear bunker guides from Jan 15.

Broadway Tower - The Cotswold's highest castle, featuring the Morris & Brown cafe, commanding views over 16 counties, the most at any spot in the UK.

09/06/2014

First Bambies born this week. Hooray, who can find the best name? There's a bottle of bubbles in it for the most outstanding poet.

21/04/2014

St George's Day on 23 April is the feast day of St George and the National Day for England.
Photo by Annette Gorton

13/04/2014

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Is there a tourist attraction, or for that matter any place in Britain, from where you can view as many counties as can be seen from the top of Broadway Tower?

09/11/2013

Improve and maintain the professional competence of people involved in all aspects of sustainable tourism and the provision of sustainable tourist services

26/07/2013

Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the 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.

26/07/2013

The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was one of three British twin-engine, front line medium bomber types in service with the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of the Second World War (the others were the Vickers Wellington and the Handley Page Hampden). It took part in the first RAF bombing raid on German territory, and remained an integral part of the early British bomber offensive until the introduction of four-engined "heavies". Its front line service included maritime reconnaissance with Coastal Command, while also being employed in the second line roles of glider-tug, trainer and transport aircraft.

The aircraft was named after Whitley, a suburb of Coventry, home of one of Armstrong Whitworth's plants.
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The Armstrong WhitworthA.W.38 Whitley was one of three British twin-engine, front line medium bomber types in service with the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of the Second World War (the others were the Vickers Wellington and the Handley Page Hampden). It took part in the first RAF bombing raid on…

26/07/2013

New memorial dedicated on 2nd June 2013

26/07/2013

RAF veterans from across the county came together at Broadway Tower on Sunday 2nd June to remember the airmen who died when their Whitley bomber crashed into the hillside 70 years ago.

A new memorial was unveiled in honour of the crew. A brief inter-denominational service was held at the memorial stone which marks the spot where the Whitley Bomber crashed.

Pilot HG Hagen, Sgt EG Ekins, Flt Sgt DH Kelly, Sgt DA Marriott and Sgt RS Phillips were killed when the aircraft they were in came down less than 200 yards from the tower on June 2, 1943.

The aircraft was an obsolescent Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V Bomber from no.24 Operational Training unit, Honeybourne serial no.Z6639. The Whitley had taken off from Honeybourne on a training flight shortly after lunch. Soon after, the weather worsened and airborne crews were recalled to base because of the appalling conditions. The crew was inexperienced and the most likely explanation for the tragedy is that they became disorientated and descended to ascertain their position. The Whitley crashed into high ground just 200 yards from the Royal Observer Corps post at Broadway Tower at 14.15hrs. The crew except for the rear gunner were killed on impact but he later died of his injuries.

Thanks to the The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Honeybourne for the crash details