Bradstone is located within West Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Lifton Hundred. It falls within Tavistock Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 105 in 1801 105 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.In 1641/2 57 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Tavistock Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website

Maps: The image below is of the Bradstone area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 96/8 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 96NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX382809. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX38SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 112, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 201. Geological sheet 337 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BRADSTONE takes its name from some " broad stone," perhaps a boundary mark. The S. boundary of the parish is a prehistoric trackway down to the Tamar, where Greystone Bridge now is. This fine medieval bridge is mentioned in the Exeter episcopal registers in 1438 and by William of Worcester in 1478. There are superb views, all over the parish, of Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor, and the Tamar valley. The church, dedicated to St. Non, mother of St. David, is mostly an early 16th century building with a good W. tower, boldly pinnacled. The 12th century S. doorway was uncovered about 1888. Considerable portions of the S. wall of the nave appear to be Norman also. The medieval screen still survived in 1840; the present atrocity dates from 1892. The interior is plain, with no monuments. The Hall, now a farmhouse, is a good Elizabethan house in local stone, with a gatehouse and fine ranges of barns and outbuildings.