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Bradpole, Dorset
Bradpole maps
Historic maps of Bradpole and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bradpole maps
Historic map of Bradpole
Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset
Historic Map of any Bradpole postcode
Bradpole books
Displaying 3 of 11 books about Bradpole and the local area. View all Bradpole books
Weymouth Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
Bridport Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
3 Bradpole photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Bradpole
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Dorset memories
We were clearing the last furniture from my mother's bungalow a few weeks ago. A heartbreaking task, having lost her in April. Behind the last set of drawers, on the floor, I found an old sepia photograph. It showed a group of children with some adults, outside a building which must have been a chapel or a school. From the clothes... [more]
Shared on 06 October 2007
Haywards of Loders - family tree search
Hello from Australia to Loders,
Researching on-line family Thomas Hayward, m Mary Anne Dodge 1808 November in Sherborne church. Already one gggg cousin Jill Hayward left an entry but has not made contact. Another gggg cousin Ingrid Wilson in Wallingford, Berkshire has made contact via this website.
Thomas's son John went to farm in Englefield, Berkshire and is my... [more]
Shared on 12 July 2009
Wondering if anyone knows of Hayward family, buried in the churchyard surrounds, that farmed in the Loders area back to at least 1750 or further back. Any info for family tree welcome.
Shared on 17 August 2007
John (1813) moved to Berkshire. Thomas (1787), Robert (1759) and John(1738) are all connected to Loders by being born, baptised, married and buried here, or in surrounding villages. Their ancestral home one might say. Still tracing them further via Dorset OPC and BT records. Collecting any photos related to these ancestors of mine and where they lived. Photos bring back happy... [more]
Shared on 12 May 2007
Extracts From Bradpole & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Bradpole, inspired by Frith photos.
Bradpole is another ancient West Dorset village, now overshadowed by its larger neighbour Bridport. It was the birthplace of the educational reformer W E Forster, who introduced into parliament the pioneering Education Bill of 1870 which provided a free education for all children.
This is an extract from Dorset Photographic Memories.
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Victorian and Edwardian Dorset Photographic Memories
This was formerly the site of a Benedictine priory, founded in the reign of Henry I by Baldwin de Redvers, as a cell of the Norman monastery of Montburgh. It was dissolved as an alien house in 1411, and none of the original premises survived. But aspects of the picturesque church of St Magdalene, whose proportions and masonry show its Saxonand Norman origin appear... [more]
This is an extract from Victorian and Edwardian Dorset Photographic Memories.
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Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories
Bradpole is now a pleasant northern suburb of Bridport, but its heart still enjoys a village atmosphere. King Charles II passed down its lanes as he sought a passage to freedom after defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
This is an extract from Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
