North Bradley in 1843
North Bradley is in the hundred of Whorwelsdown, two miles south of Trowbridge. The parish has an area of 3,020 acres, including the tything of Southwick ; the population of Southwick, in 1831, was 1,452, that of the rest of the parish, including the village of North Bradley, 1,025 ; together, 2,477, about one-fourth agricultural. The manufacture of broad cloth and kerseymere is actively carried on in the village ; it gave employment in 1831 to 91 men. |