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Bradford (St. Giles)

BRADFORD (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Wellington, hundred of Taunton and Taunton-Dean, W. division of Somerset, 4¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Taunton; containing 550 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Tone, and within a quarter of a mile of the great western road, comprises 1735a. 3r. 22p. Freestone is quarried; and the canal from Bridgwater to Tiverton affords facility of carriage. A cattle-fair is held on the third Monday in September. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10. 17. 6.; net income, £120; patron and incumbent, the Rev. W. Burridge; impropriators, the landowners. The church is an ancient edifice.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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