The village of Broomfield (really more of a hamlet than a village) lies less than a mile from Leeds as the crow flies. It consists of a couple of dozen houses straggling up the side of a steep hill. It has no pub, shop, post office or village hall and the nearest school is Leeds and Broomfield Primary School in Leeds.
	Broomfield owes its status as a village solely to the fact that it has its own parish church - St. Margarets. No mention is made of any church in Broomfield in the Domesday Book. There is later evidence that the church of St. Margarets Broomfield was granted to Leeds Priory along with the church of St. Nicholas in Leeds. This suggests that St. Margarets was built sometime in the 12th century.

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