Bradford Peverell

Bradford Peverell
Bradford Peverell
Bradford Peverell is located in Dorset
Bradford Peverell
Bradford Peverell
Location within Dorset
Population357 (2021)
OS grid referenceSY658930
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDorchester
Postcode districtDT2
PoliceDorset
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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UK
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Dorset
50°44′10″N 2°29′06″W / 50.7361°N 2.485°W / 50.7361; -2.485

Bradford Peverell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited by the south bank of the River Frome, among low chalk hills on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs. The A37 road between Dorchester and Yeovil passes to the north of the village on the other side of the river's water meadows. In the 2011 census the population of the parish (which includes the hamlet of Muckleford to the north-west) was 357.[1]

Historian John Hutchins was born in Bradford Peverell in 1698.[2] His work on the history of the county, History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, was published in 1774.

In the 1st century a Roman aqueduct ran through where the village is now sited. It followed a line from Notton, a few miles upstream, to Dorchester,[2] which then was the Roman town of Durnovaria. The remaining sections of the aqueduct are a scheduled monument.[3]

St Mary's parish church is a grade II* listed building.[4] In 1850 it was rebuilt in a 13th/14th-century style, though various fittings and monuments were retained from the earlier building. The new design was by Decimus Burton.[5]

The Frome Valley Trail long-distance footpath runs through the village.[6]

  1. ^ "Parish Profiles". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 142. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.
  3. ^ "Discontinuous surviving sections of Roman aqueduct, Bradford Peverell - 1002730 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  4. ^ "CHURCH OF ST MARY, Bradford Peverell - 1324204 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Bradford Peverell', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1: West (1952), pp. 34-36". British History Online. University of London & History of Parliament Trust. November 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  6. ^ "LDWA Frome Valley Trail". Long Distance Walkers Association. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011.