148 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
BRADFORD. 
The toune self of Bradeford stondith on the clining of a slaty! 
rokke, and hath a meetely good market ons a weeke. The toune 
is made al of stone and standith, as I cam to it, on the hither ripe 
of Avon. 
Ther is a chapelle? on the highest place of the toune as I enterid. 
The fair larg paroche chirch standith bynethe the bridge on Avon 
ripe. The vicarage is at the west ende of the chirch. 
The personage is L. poundes by the yere, and was impropriate 
to Shaftesbyri abbay. 
Haulle dwellith in a pratie stone house? at the este ende of the 
toune on the right bank of Avon. 
Haule alias De la Sale, a man of £100, landes by the yere. 
There is a very fair house of the building of one Horton,‘ a riche 
clothier, at the north est part by the chirch. This Horton’s wife 
yet lyvith. This Horton buildid a goodly large chirch house? ex 
lapide quadrato at the est end of the chirch yard, without it. 
1 “ Slaty rock.” He means, not what is commonly called slate: but a kind 
of thin grey stone-tile, one of the subordinate beds of ‘‘ forest marble,” over- 
lying the great oolite of which the high grounds about Bradford principally 
consist. 
2 ‘‘ Chapelle.” Leland enters Bradford from Wraxhall. There is no known 
vestige or tradition of any chapel, at or near the entrance of the town by any 
road upon which it is entered now upon that side. The roads have probably 
been altered: and he may have approached the town by Bearfield, down some 
part of the steep hill called Tory. Here, upon nearly the highest part of it, was 
once a small chapel, of which a fragment called Tory chapel was a few years 
ago rescued from total destruction by Capt. S. Palairet, of Woolley Grange. 
It was built over an abundant spring that flows out of the rock and supplies 
the town. The name of Tory, by which that part of Bradford is called, has 
been ingeniously interpreted to be a corruption of the word ‘ oratory.” 
3 ‘‘ House.” Now called ‘‘The Duke’s” or ‘‘ Kingston House.” It was 
built by the Halls, whose arms on stone are still in one of the apartments ; and 
has lately been restored by the present owner Mr. Moulton. 
4 ‘* Horton.” Edward Horton, of Westwood manor house, near Bradford, 
married Alice May, of Broughton Giffard, and died without issue. His eldest 
brother, William, lived at Iford. For his descendants, see Wilts Visit., 1565. 
5 ‘Church House.” Notices of a building called ‘‘ The Church House” are 
often met with in old parochial papers. It was the house at which, before the 
days*of rating, meetings were held for raising funds to maintain church repairs, 
