Bridford
| Bridford | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Bridford: near the church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX815863 |
| Location: | 50°39’54"N, 3°40’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 503 (2011) |
| Post town: | Teignbridge |
| Postcode: | EX6 |
| Dialling code: | 01647 |
| Local Government | |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Central Devon |
Bridford is a village in southern Devon, in the valley of the River Teign and on the south-eastern edge of Dartmoor.
The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Dunsford, Doddiscombsleigh, Christow, and Moretonhampstead.[1] At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 503, compared with 404 in 1901.[2]
History
The place-name 'Bridford' is first attested in a charter of circa 1080, where it appears as Bridaford. It is recorded as Brideforda in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'brides' ford', and has the same derivation as Britford in Wiltshire.[3]
Today
Bridford has a village pub called the Bridford Inn, which incorporates the village shop. The Post Office visits every Friday in the village hall, and the doctor's surgery is open five days a week in neighbouring Christow. Moorgate vets have a small surgery just outside the village, and there is a servicing garage and garden centre within a mile of Bridford. There is a children's play park, a village garden and a village hall. The village also has a two-acre Woodland Trust nature reserve and Rowdon Woods. It is well served by buses to both Exeter and Newton Abbot.
Bridford's church is dedicated to St Thomas Becket. There is also a tiny Methodist chapel in the centre of the village.
Society
The village has clubs such as scouts, women's institute and darts, skittles teams. Teign Valley Golf Club is four miles away and there is a football pitch and tennis courts in Christow two miles distant.
Bridford holds a village summer fête in July each year.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bridford) |
- Information on Bridford from GENUKI
- Bridford Village
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111003015302/http://www.devon.gov.uk/historicbridford
References
- ↑ "Map of Devon Parishes". Devon County Council. http://www.devon.gov.uk/devon_districts_2002_.pdf. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ↑ Harris, Helen (2004). A Handbook of Devon Parishes. Tiverton: Halsgrove. pp. 29-30. ISBN 1-84114-314-6.
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 64 ISBN 0198691033