Bridgerule is situate in the hundred of Stratton, i. e. street or
highway town. Now the part of the parish that is on the north side of
the river Tamar, hath upon the north Launcells, west Marham Church,
south Whitstone, east the Tamar river. The church stands on the
Devonshire side, in the Halisworthy hundred, so that this rule or
dominion of the Bridge extendeth itself into both counties, as to
spirituals and temporals. In the Valor Beneficiarum, it is called
Brige Rowell. Ecclesia de Bridge Rule, in Decanatu de Stratone, was
taxed to the Pope’s annats, in 1294, at v_l._ iii_s._ 8_d._ Vicar
ibidem nihil propter paupertatem. In Wolsey’s Inquisition it was taxed
at 14_l._, and the parish was rated to the 4_s._ land-tax, in 1696, at
45_l._ 3_s._
At the time of the Domesday Roll, 20 W. Conq. this district was taxed
under the name of Tacabere, which place is now the dwelling place of
Mr. Samuel Gilbert.