Long Bredy, Dorset
Historical Description
Bredy, Long, or Longbredy, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the Downs, near the source of the Bredy stream, 4 miles from Abbotsbury station on the G.W.R., and 8 W of Dorchester. It includes the hamlet of Upper Kingston. It lias a post office under Dorchester; money order and telegraph office, Abbotsbury. Acreage, 2153; population of the civil parish, 215; of the ecclesiastical, with Littlebredy, 469. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Littlebredy, in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £380 with residence. The church is good. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Dorsetshire | |
Diocese | Bristol | 1542 - 1836 |
Diocese | Salisbury | 1836 - |
Ecclesiastical parish | Long Bredy St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Eggerton | |
Poor Law union | Dorchester | 1836 - |
Registration district | Dorchester | |
Registration sub-district | Maiden Newton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates regularly from the year 1649, but retains some leaves from 1628. The original register books are now deposited with the Dorset Archives Service, but have been digitised by Ancestry.co.uk and made available on their site (subscription required).
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The parish church of St. Peter is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a tower containing 4 bells; it was thoroughly restored in 1863, and has 250 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Long Bredy was in Dorchester Registration District from 1837 to 1949 and Weymouth Registration District from 1949 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Long Bredy from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bredy, Long (St. John the Baptist))
- Hunt & Co.'s Directory of Dorsetshire, Hampshire, & Wiltshire 1851
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Dorset is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Long Bredy are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the Dorset County Chronicle and the Sherborne Mercury online.
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Kingston RussellUpper Kingston (Long Bredy)
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Dorset, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.