Broadnymet is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of North Tawton Hundred. In 1641/2 7 adult males signed the Protestation returns. Rectory and parish which paid poor law and highway rates to to North Tawton, while being ecclesiastically annexed to Bow or Nymet Tracey.

You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Broadnymet area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 66/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 66NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS702011. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS70SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area.