North and South Bradon Somerset Family History Guide

North and South Bradon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Other places in the parish include: Goose Bradon.

Alternative names: Bradon, North Bradon, South Bradon

Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRADON, a parish in Langport district, Somerset; near the Chard canal, 3 miles N by E of Ilminster, and 5 SW of Langport r. station. It includes the tythings of North and South Bradon; and its Post town is Isle Abbott, under Taunton. Acres, 390. Real property, returned with Isle-Brewers and Puckington. Pop., 38. Houses, 11. The living is a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £133. Patron, the Earl of Egremont. The church is in ruins.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BRADON, NORTH and SOUTH (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Langport, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, W. division of Somerset, 3¾ miles (N. by E.) from Ilminster; containing 41 inhabitants. The living is a sinecure rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 4. 4½., and in the patronage of the Wyndham family: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £55, and the vicarial for £50. The church is in ruins. Adjoining this parish was one called Gouze-Bradon, now depopulated, and the church and other buildings entirely destroyed.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Somerset, Bradon – Land and property ( 1 )
England, Somerset, Bradon – Taxation ( 1 )

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Langport
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Crewkerne
  • Poor Law Union: Langport
  • Hundred: Abdick and Bulstone
  • Province: Canterbury