[1] Broadfield appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 when it had thirteen households and was split between four owners.

[2] By 1222 there was a church at Broadfield, which seems to have been a chapel of ease belonging to the neighbouring parish of Rushden.

[3] Arthur Pulter, a High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, inherited the manor of Broadfield in 1608, and with his wife, Lady Hester Pulter, began constructing Broadfield Hall as his manor house in the 1640s, but never completed the work.

[3] The house was demolished in about 1875: the stables are still standing and are a Grade II* listed building.

By this time the settlement at Broadfield had shrunk to be just a couple of farms and cottages; the population of the parish in 1881 was just nineteen.