Broomsquire

A broomsquire is someone who makes besom brooms for a living.

It is a trade that was historically associated with heathland areas of England.

The broomsquire tended to use heather or birch twigs gathered from the heathland to make the brooms.

In his 1903 ghost story The Blood-Eagle, Robert Hugh Benson hints at links between broomsquires and paganism.

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