BURTON-BRADSTOCK, a parish in the liberty of
FRAMPTON, though locally in the hundred of GodderThorne,
Bridport division of the county of DORSET, 2f
miles (S.E. by S.) from Bridport, containing 854 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the Icing's books
at £25, and in the patronage of Lord Rivers. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. This parish has the
English channel on the south, and Bridport harbour
on the west; the cliffs on the beach rise perpendicularly
to a considerable height, and contain a. vast quantity of
fossils.