BRADFORD-ABBAS, a parish in the hundred of SHERBORNE, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, 3 miles (W. S.W.) from Sherborne, containing 533 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with which the rectory of Clifton-Mabank was consolidated in 1824, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £ 7. 17.11., and in the patroii-- age of the Marquis of Anglesey. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Rev. William Preston, in 1738. gave £ 14 per annum for the endowment of a charity school; and, in 1781, Mark West and William Read gave property producing an equal amount, for the same purpose.