BRADFORD, a parish in the hundred of TAUNTON-and-TAUNTON-DEAN, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Taunton, containing 525 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £10. 17. 6., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev. W. Burridge. The church is dedicated to St. Giles.