Bridford
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Bridford is a village and civil parish in south west England, located in the Teign Valley, Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. The parish is surrounded (clockwise from the north) by the parishes of Dunsford, Doddiscombsleigh, Christow, and Moretonhampstead. At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 503, compared with 404 in 1901.
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Vinony's link graph records 162 inbound references to Bridford, and connects out to England, list of sovereign states and geographic coordinate system.
It is catalogued under the topic Villages in Devon.
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Place details
- Locality
- Teignbridge
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Bridford - near the church - geograph.org.uk - 991692.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Bridford: near the church
- UK place.official_name
- Bridford
- UK place.population
- 503
- UK place.shire_county
- Devon
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Central Devon
- UK place.post_town
- Exeter
- UK place.postcode_district
- EX6
- UK place.postcode_area
- EX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01647
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SX816865
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Teignbridge
- Population
- 503
- Image
- St Thomas a Becket, Bridford, Devon - geograph.org.uk - 1731859.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01647
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- Commons category
- Bridford
- OS grid reference
- SX8105186638
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bridford is a village and civil parish in south west England, located in the Teign Valley, Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. The parish is surrounded (clockwise from the north) by the parishes of Dunsford, Doddiscombsleigh, Christow, and Moretonhampstead. At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 503, compared with 404 in 1901.
==History== The place-name 'Bridford' is first attested in a charter of circa 1080, where surprisingly it appears as Bridaford. It is recorded as Brideforda in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'brides' ford', and has the same derivation as Britford in Wiltshire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bridford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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