Broadwoodwidger

Broadwoodwidger is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England.

Broadwoodwidger has a church on top of the hill, with views to Brentor and surrounding countryside.

The parish had a small primary school three miles north of the village at Ivyhouse Cross, but it has now been closed down.

From 1273 the advowson and manor had been held by the Widger family; they were acquired by the priory by the generosity of the Stapeldons.

It was earlier known simply as Broad wood, for example it appears as Bradewode in the Domesday Book of 1086.