Brushford is a village
and civil parish in the West Somerset district of Somerset,
England.
According to the 2001 census it had a population of 535 with 243 occupied households . The village
is about 12 miles north of Tiverton and
is on the edge of the Exmoor National
Park.
It has an aisleless church, interesting for (1)
a good 15th-cent. screen, (2) a font, of which the bowl and base date
from the 13th cent. There is a splendid oak tree in the churchyard, which
is reputed to be 600 years old.
Once a resident of Brushford with recordings in www.somerset.gov.uk/
archives/exmoor/troake.htm
Brushford's small church, St. Nicholas, is worth visiting, with its medieval screen, 13th century font and possibly the oldest parish chest in the country, hollowed from a tree trunk.
The modern side chapel contains an effigy of Colonel Aubrey Herbert, said to be the model for Greenmantle in John Buchanan's novel of that name.
Brushford parish straddles the boundary of the National Park in Somerset. Only a small amount falls within the National Park: a few acres of meadow between the B3222 and the River Barle.
The name Brushford probaly derives from bridge by the ford, as it was Briggeford in 1270, but may have something to do with brush wood as it was Brucheford in the Domesday Book.
Brushford Church
Brushford Lying on the
southern edge of the Exmoor
National Park, with hills rising
to 800 feet. Iit was previously a
mainly rural community, with
cattle market and corn mills
but development during the
1930s and led to Brushford to
become a working
village with service industries and also
tourism.
Plaque under a tree in Brushford Churchyard
Deatials on the Plaque under a tree in Brushford Churchyard
Brushford church features a richly
carved rood screen and an Early English
font. It also owns a very old parish chest
formed from a hollowed tree trunk.
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