Bradworthy is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Black Torrington Hundred. It falls within Holsworthy 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 634 in 1801 847 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.In 1641/2 166 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Holsworthy 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 Bradworthy 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 39/5 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 39NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS324141. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS31SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 126, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 190. Geological sheet 307 also covers the area.

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

BRADWORTHY is a large village in high, remote country, built around an open square. In plan it is characteristic of a nucleated settlement founded early in the Saxon occupation (perhaps c. 700): the large open space, the houses grouped around the original water supply, and the parish church to one side. The latter (St. John the Baptist) is a dullish building, largely of early 16th century date, containing an earlier font (c.1200),a Jacobean pulpit, and some medieval tiles in the floor. Alfardisworthy was a small Domesday estate; the present farmhouse is of considerable age. Other Domesday estates were Ash, Brexworthy, Horton, Instaple and Kimworthy, while Limscott is recorded by 1196. On the outlying moors are a number of Bronze Age burial-mounds.