BRADPOLE, a parish in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-FORUM-and-REDHONE, Bridport division of the county of DORSET, l mile (N. N.E.) from Bridport, containing 926 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £ 8. 13. l., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The inhabitants formerly interred their dead at Bridport, but, by a composition made in 1527, they were allowed to inter in their own churchyard, on paying annually a small acknowledgment to the rector of Bridport.