Bradford, Devon

Description
Bradford, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Torridge,. 7 miles NE of Holsworthy, and 2 1/2 from Dunsland Cross. station on the L. & S.W.R. Post and money order office, Brandis Corner; telegraph office, Dunsland Cross railway station. Acreage, 4133; population of civil parish, 482 ; of ecclesiastical, 334. Dunsland has a fine old baronial mansion ; it belonged at the Conquest to Walter de Cadiho, and passed to the Arscotts and the Bickfords. Hengiscott has traces of a fortified camp, supposed to have been formed by the famous Hengist. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £263 with residence. The church has a tower and some monuments; it was restored in 1889.. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels in Middlecott hamlet—a part of Black Torrington included in the civil parish.