New Traffic Calming Scheme

by | Sep 18, 2017 | Information

The Parish Council has for a long time worked on the introduction of a Traffic Calming Scheme along the main B3222 road which runs through from Exebridge to Dulverton as speed checks have continuously reflected high speeds, with a large number of vehicles exceeding...

Brushford Present

by | Sep 18, 2017 | Information

Today, Brushford is still a small community of 535 parishioners. The Parish is made up of Brushford, that part of Exebridge on the Somerset side of the River Exe to the South and the hamlet of Nightcott to the West. (See Parish Statistics Page) We have a thriving and...

Brushford Past

by | Sep 18, 2017 | Information

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brushford enjoyed the contact of the Barnstaple to Taunton and Tiverton Railway, which resulted in Lord Carnarvon building the Carnarvon Arms in the mid 19th Century. There was a thriving saw mill on the other side of the...

Brushford Origins

by | Sep 6, 2017 | Information

Situated on the Southern Edge of Exmoor National Park, Brushford is an ancient Somerset Parish. Named as Brigeford in the Domesday Book survey of 1086 (see below), the village boasts a 13th Century Church,said to have been visited by Elizabeth I. Indeed, the old oak...
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