Bradford Peverell est une paroisse civile et un village du Dorset, en Angleterre.
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Bradford Peverell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, 2 miles north-west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited by the south bank of the River Frome, among low chalk hills on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs. The A37 road between Dorchester and Yeovil passes to the north of the village on the other side of the river's water meadows. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was 357.
Historian John Hutchins was born in Bradford Peverell in 1698. His work on the history of the county, History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, was published in 1774.
In the 1st century a Roman aqueduct ran through where the village is now sited. It followed a line from Notton, a few miles upstream, to Dorchester, which then was the Roman town of Durnovaria. The remaining sections of the aqueduct are a scheduled monument.
St Mary's parish church is a grade II* listed building. In 1850 it was rebuilt in a 13th/14th-century style, though various fittings and monuments were retained from the earlier building. The new design was by Decimus Burton.
The Frome Valley Trail long-distance footpath runs through the village.
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St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Bradford Peverell, Dorset, England. It was designed by Decimus Burton and built in 1849–50. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
In the churchyard is Bradford Peverell's war memorial which contains the names of those who fell in both World Wars. It was completed and erected in January 1921 and is made of Dartmoor granite. It became a Grade II listed monument in 2015.
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Bradford Peverell and Stratton Halt was a station on the Great Western Railway on what had originally been part of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth Railway. It was in the parish of Stratton, just east of the main part of the village but also close to the parish of Bradford Peverell which it was also intended to serve. The relatively modern looking concrete platforms and shelters, standard products of the former Southern Railway concrete factory at Exmouth Junction, can still be seen next to the bridge carrying the line over the A37
Dorchester - Yeovil road.
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Stratton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Frome valley about 3 miles north-west of Dorchester. The parish includes the hamlets of Grimstone, Ash Hill and Wrackleford which, like the village, lie on or near the A37 trunk road. Ash Hill is a small estate east of the village near the railway. Wrackleford is a group of houses further east and centred about Wrackleford House and including Higher Wrackleford and Lower Wrackleford. In addition there are a number of isolated farms and houses including a few in an area called Langford near the Sydling Water in the north-west part of the parish.
The name Stratton means 'Farm on the Street'. The Street referred to the Roman road from Durnovaria to Lindinis which passes through the village.
The parish has an area of about 1,710 acres. Most of this is agricultural land lying north of the village where the land rises from about 250 feet to about 620 feet. Stratton parish is bounded by the parishes of Bradford Peverell, Frampton, Sydling St. Nicholas, Godmanstone and Charminster. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 592.
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St George's Hundred, later often George Hundred, was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the parishes of Bradford Peverell, Broadmayne, Charminster, Frome Whitfield, Stinsford, Stratton and Winterborne St Martin.
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