Bradford is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

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Torridge Torridge may refer to: * Torridge District Torridge is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in north-west Devon, England. Its council is based in the town of Bideford. The district also includes the towns of Great Torringt ...

Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...

, England. The parish, which lies about six miles east of the town of Holsworthy has part of its eastern boundary formed by the

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, and it is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of

Milton Damerel Milton Damerel is a village, parish and former manor in north Devon, England. Situated in the political division of Torridge, on the river Waldon, it covers . It contains many tiny hamlets including Whitebeare, Strawberry Bank, East Wonford an ...

, Shebbear,

Black Torrington Black Torrington is a village and civil parish in Torridge, Devon, England, situated between the towns of Holsworthy and Hatherleigh. It is located on and named after (the dark waters of) the River Torridge. In the 2021 UK census, the populati ...

, Ashwater, Cookbury and Thornbury. In 2001 its population was 359, compared to 280 in 1901. The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, is in the village of Bradford and mostly dates from the early 14th century although it has a

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doorway and baptismal font. By the 19th century the church was in poor condition and was

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twice, in 1869 and in 1875–89. Within the parish are several former manors mentioned in the

Domesday Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

book of 1086: Bradford, Dunsland, Henscott and Lashbrook. The 10th-century Bradford Manor was damaged by fire in around 1770. Purchased and then rebuilt in the 1870s the existing Manor was styled and rebuilt by J. T. English. Dunsland was the home of several notable Devon families and the fine house had just been extensively renovated by the

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when it was destroyed by fire in 1967.

References

External links

Bradford Community webpage
Villages in Devon Torridge District {{Devon-geo-stub