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The speed regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to

Now a northern suburb of Worthing, Broadwater was once a small coastal settlement.

Although the Gothic style flint and Bath stone cruciform church was completed in 1886, it was not consecrated until 1888 due to strong and often bitter opposition from the rector of Broadwater and

It has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

Westbourne has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

West Street was originally part of the main route through Sompting, linking it to Broadwater and North Lancing.

This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.

Although Broadwater Street was picturesque, it was eventually unable to cope with the increase in modern traffic.

The Long Bridge over the broad waters of the River Taw was certainly built by 1300, but it may be a hundred years or more older.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.

In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed

In the heart of the park stand the ruins of Bradgate House, a Tudor mansion; it was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic nine-day Queen of England who was executed in 1553.

All Saint's Church c1965 Prominent on the north side of Bradgate Road as it rises away from the City towards Ulverscroft Priory, the church with its recessed spire is comparatively unadorned,

Bradgate Park, only a stone's throw away, where Lady Jane Grey, the ill-fated nine-day queen, lived in the now ruined house, is a favourite beauty spot away from the city.

thatched and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close to the parish church and the entrance to Bradgate

The village is the gateway to Bradgate Park, a very large medieval deer park, which was donated to the people of Leicester for recreation in 1928.

Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town.

The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.

The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.

Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town.

Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the