Brokenborough

Brokenborough is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Malmesbury, Wiltshire in England.

[1] The village forms part of the ecclesiastical parish of Malmesbury and Brokenborough, in the Diocese of Bristol.

The antiquarian John Leland (1503–1552) relates that Máel Dub (d. 675) came as a hermit to the area and started his monastic school in the shelter of a castle built by Dunwallo Mulmutius at Bladon or Bladow, called in Old English Ingelborne Castle.

[3] The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Malmesbury Abbey held a large estate of 50 hides at Brokenborough.

[8] The Great Barn at Brokenborough Farm, just south of the village, has 10 bays, nine cruck trusses,[6] two porches[7] and is probably 14th-century.

The pub under its earlier name, the Rose and Crown, in 2009