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The Broadstone Hotel used to face the town's railway station which closed in 1966. A sports centre now occupies the site (left).
©Ron Strutt
Broadstone's high street, with small supermarket, pub and a variety of commercial businesses.
©Mike Faherty
This is taken looking across the Broadway at the jewellers shop, Forum Jewellers. The Broadway is actually part of the B3074, Lower Blandford Road, and runs from the Derby's Corner roundabout, straight through the centre of the village and meets the large roundabout in the centre of Broadstone. Most of the village shops are situated along this road, such as the Somerfields and Tesco Express supermarkets, two butchers, three hairdressers (one of them is on the right of the photograph), and a bank.
©Paul Whittington
Pub on The Broadway, also with a back entrance on Story Lane. Central bar with two drinking & eating rooms; TV, pool and darts. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Hall & Woodhouse Badger, Tanglefoot. For some customer comments, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/28/2891/Stepping_Stones/Broadstone
©Mike Faherty
Another Broadstone landmark, this very large Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata), native of California, was once in the back garden of Burton House, long vanished. It now stands in the North East Corner of Broadstone's central car park, surrounded by cars and tarmac. With a girth of 4.27 metres, it has been well maintained by the Council. Look for the dense needles in threes and obliquely attached cones, which can stay attached up to 20 years and need forest fires to open and release seeds.
©John Palmer
This huge Chilean Pine stands at the entrance to the Broadway, surrounded by pavement, road, shops and supermarkets. With a girth of 2.50 metres, it is Broadstones's landmark after climbing the long hill from Poole. Planted in the front garden of Burton House, long vanished, it should now be on Broadstone's crest.
©John Palmer
Dist:0.2km<br/>This road is actually Lower Blandford Road, but this flat, top section isn known as Broadway and amounts to the main shopping centre of Broadstone.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>Medical practice on Kirkway. http://www.thehadleighpractice.co.uk/
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>This flat section of Lower Blandford Road – forming Broadstone town centre – is known as the Broadway: see [[1398594]]. It is no surprise, then, that the postbox is a large one; it is of the Elizabeth II-reign variety and is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 12:30pm on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>On The Broadway. http://www.broadstonemethodist.org.uk/
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>A small postbox on the western side of this long, straight road, emptied finally at 5pm on weekdays and at 11:30am on Saturdays.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>This small apartment block is on the corner of Story Lane and Macaulay Road just off the B3074.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.2km<br/>At the corner of Broadway and Macauley Road.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the corner of Dunyeats and Tudor Roads. http://www.broadstonefirstschool.co.uk/keyinfo.asp
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Anglican church in Broadstone, taken from the corner of Tudor Road and Macaulay Road.
©Peter Jordan

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