Broadfield / Bradefeld / Bradefella / Bradefelle / Bradfeld [disappeared?]

There are four entries for this Broadfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3231/broadfield/] [accessed 19 October 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) informs that Broadfield was "an extra-parochial tract, formerly a parish", and that, at the time, "still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Cottered, in the diocese of Rochester" [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5910] [accessed 19th October 2016]. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Broadfield Church was a chapel of ease, [...] apparently dependent on the church of Rushden. In 1222 William Basset, lord of the manor of Rushden, quitclaimed all right in the church of Broadfield [...] It is not known at what date the church fell into disuse, but as no inventory was made for it in 1553 it seems that by this date the church was no longer used for religious services. [...] Norden, in his description of Hertfordshire in 1598, states that Broadfield had once had a chapel of ease which at that time was decayed. [...] The site of the church is supposed to have been in Chapel Wood in the centre of the parish, and certain irregularities in the ground may point to the former existence of a building here."