Description
Bredy, Long, or Longbredy, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the Downs, near the source of the Bredy stream, 4 miles from Abbotsbury station on the G.W.R., and 8 W of Dorchester. It includes the hamlet of Upper Kingston. It lias a post office under Dorchester; money order and telegraph office, Abbotsbury. Acreage, 2153; population of the civil parish, 215; of the ecclesiastical, with Littlebredy, 469. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Littlebredy, in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £380 with residence. The church is good. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Parish Church
The church of St. Peter is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a tower containing 4 bells; it was thoroughly restored in 1863, and has 250 sittings.
The register dates regularly from the year 1649, but retains a few leaves from 1628.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Kingston Russell, a quondam parish, now a hamlet or extra-parochial liberty in Dorsetshire, adjacent to Long Bredy, 8 miles W by N of Dorchester. A Roman station is supposed to have been here. Kingston Russell House stands in a sort of oasis among furze-clad hills, was for four centuries the seat of the Russells, ancestors of the Duke of Bedford, and is now a farmhouse. A church or chapel was formerly here, but has disappeared.
Kingston, Upper, a hamlet in Long Bredy parish, Dorsetshire, 7 1/2 miles W of Dorchester.
