Bradon, North and South (St. Mary Magdalene)
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.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.