St. Bradock is situate in the Hundred of West, and has upon the south
Boconock, the west St. Wennow, east St. Pynnock, north Cardinham, and
by this name Bradock or Brodock it was taxed in the Domesday Roll. If
its etymology is Saxon the name means broad oak.
In the Pope’s Inquisition into the value of benefices before
mentioned, anno 1294, Capella de Bradock in decanatu de Westwells,
appropriata domui de Lanceston, was valued at xiii_s._ iv_d._; from
whence it appears that this church was endowed by the college of St.
Stephen, near Launceston. In Wolsey’s Inquisition and Valor
Beneficiorum, at viii_l._ xiii_s._ iv_d._ The patronage in the Bishop
of Exeter; and this parish was rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax
for one year in 1696 at 57_l._