Bradford Peverell is a

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and

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in the

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county of

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...

, north-west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited by the south bank of the River Frome, among low chalk hills on the

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of the Dorset Downs. The

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between Dorchester and

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passes to the north of the village on the other side of the river's

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s. In the 2011 census the population of the parish (which includes the hamlet of Muckleford to the north-west) was 370. Bradford Peverell is the birthplace of the historian John Hutchins, who was born here in 1698. His work on the history of the county, ''History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset'', was published in 1774. In the 1st century a

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ran through where the village is now sited; it followed a line from Notton, a few miles upstream, to Dorchester, which then was the

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town of Durnovaria. The remaining sections of the aqueduct are a

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. In 1850 the

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was rebuilt in a 13th/14th-century style, though various fittings and monuments were retained from the earlier building. The new design was by

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. The church is Grade II*

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. The Frome Valley Trail

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runs through the village.

References

External links

Parish Council website
* Villages in Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub