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Bradford Peverell (#2 on map) is a civil parish in Dorset, England, in the West Dorset District, with its main village 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. The village 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 UK census the population of the parish (which includes the hamlet of Muckleford) was 370.
Bradford Peverell is the birthplace of the historian John Hutchins, who was born here in 1698. His work on the history of the county, History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, was published in 1774.
In the first 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".
In 1850 the parish church 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.
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Governance
Bradford Peverell was originally a parish in the George Hundred, one of the hundreds or early subdivisions of the county of Dorset. From 1894 until 1974 it was part of the Dorchester Rural District.
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, all urban and rural districts across England were abolished and counties were reorganized into metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts. Bradford Peverell joined the non-metropolitan West Dorset District.
Under the local government reforms adopted on 1 April 2019, West Dorset Dorset District was abolished, and the county of Dorset (excluding Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole) became a unitary authority. The area is now administered by Dorset Council.
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