BRIDGE-SOLLERS, a parish in the hundred
GRIMSWORTH, county of HEREFORD, 5 miles (W.N.w.J
from Hereford, containing 58 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £8. 10.,
endowed with £260 private benefaction, and £200.
royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir J. G. Cotterell,
Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew
BRIDGFORD (EAST), a parish in the northern
division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM,
8 miles (E. N. E.) from Nottingham, containing
768 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated
in the king's books at £19. 8. 6., and in the alternate
patronage of the President and Fellows of Magdalene
College, Oxford, and J. Musters, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. The village is pleasantly situated
on the eastern bank of the Trent, near the spot where
was anciently a ford, and where there is now a ferry.
Here was the ancient Margidunum of the Romans, numerous
relics of which people have been discovered in
the vicinity, particularly gold, silver, and brass coins
of various emperors. At a place called Castle Hill,
on the Fosse-road, which passes through the parish, a
Roman fibula, in good preservation, was found in 1828.
There is an abundance of a fine species of gypsum
in the parish. A charity school is supported by subscription.