Bradford Abbas is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Clifton Maybank.
Alternative names: Bradford Abbas with Clifton Maybank
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1579
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1729
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian
Adjacent Parishes
- Hendford, Somerset
- Beer Hackett
- Barwick, Somerset
- Ryme Instrinseca
- Yetminster
- Yeovil, Somerset
- Nether Compton
- Over Compton
- Thornford
- Sherborne
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BRADFORD-ABBAS (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Sherborne, Sherborne division of Dorset, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Sherborne; containing 652 inhabitants. It comprises 1139a. 1r. 30p., of which 774 acres are arable, 336 pasture, and 29 woodland: the soil is partly of a sandy and partly of a stony nature; the surface is generally hilly, and where flat subject to inundation. The river Ivel passes through. The living is a vicarage, with which the rectory of Clifton-Mabank was united in 1824, valued in the king’s books at £7. 17. 11., and in the gift of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College, who exchanged the living of Milbourne-Port for this in 1824. The Marquess of Anglesey has commuted his share of the great tithes for £193. 17. 11.; the Warden and Fellows receive £45, and the vicarial tithes of the parish have been commuted for £156: the glebe belonging to the impropriator comprises nearly nine acres, and that of the vicar nearly 9½. The church is an elegant structure in the later English style, with a lofty square embattled tower of graceful elevation. The Rev. William Preston, in 1738, gave an estate now worth £24 per annum; and in 1781, Mark West and William Read gave property producing £12. 5. per annum; for which sums children are educated on the national system.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Bradford-Abbas, 1841-1891
Church Records
History
Bradford Abbas : the history of a Dorset village Author: Garrett, Eric
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Poor law records, 1798-1863 Author: Bradford-Abbas (Dorset)
Public records
Poor law records, 1798-1863 Author: Bradford-Abbas (Dorset)
Schools
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Sherborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Sherborne
- Hundred: Sherborne
- Province: Canterbury