[2] Bradenstoke is the oldest community in the present-day parish, with 42 households recorded at Stoche in Domesday Book.

The church of St Mary the Virgin was built in 1866 at the expense of Gabriel Goldney to designs of C.F.

The parish is in the area of Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

Having fallen into disrepair after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was dismantled in 1930 to provide building material for the renovation of St Donat's Castle in Wales, which had been bought by William Randolph Hearst.

[14] A 15th-century timber-framed building in Bradenstoke village is reputedly a guesthouse for the priory; it was converted to a house in the 16th century and divided into three cottages in the 18th, and is now Grade II* listed.