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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bradford like this:
BRADFORD, a village and a parish in Wellington district, Somerset. The village stands on the river Tone, 2¾ miles NE of Wellington r. station, and 3½ WSW of Taunton; and has a post office under Taunton.—The parish comprises 1,782 acres. Real property, £4,488. Pop., 552. Houses, 110. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £120.* Patron, A. Adair, Esq. The church was repaired in 1858. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.
Bradford is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bradford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bradford in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12466
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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