BRADLEY (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
WHORWELSDOWN, county of WILTS, 2 miles (s.) from
Trowbridge, containing, with the chapelry of Southwick,
2615 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £11, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £ 209 royal bounty
and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of
Winchester College. The church is dedicated to St.
Nicholas. An elegant chapel, called Christchurch, has
been lately erected on Road hill, at one extremity of the
parish, by the present vicar, Dr. Daubeny, Archdeacon of
Sarum, aided by voluntary subscriptions and a grant
from the commissioners for building and enlarging
churches; it is endowed with £ 1200 private benefaction,
£3400 parliamentary grant, and is in the patronage
of the Vicar of North Bradley. The Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches and chapels have
also granted £ 1000 for the erection of seven hundred
additional sittings, of which five hundred and fifty are
free. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.
The parish is bounded on the west by the river
Frome, which here separates Wiltshire from Somersetshire,
and is intersected by a small stream, called Bradley
river.