The village was first mentioned in a charter made by Edward the Elder in 909, and was confirmed to be part of Overton at the time of the Domesday Survey.

Other listed buildings include three large farmhouses and a K6 telephone box which sits beside the village pond.

[2] According to a charter made in 909, King Edward the Elder confirmed that Frithstan, the Bishop of Winchester, had possession of five hides in Bradley.

In 1242, Henry de Bradley, possibly a descendant of the manor's first owner, exchanged three virgates of land in Bradley for 41 acres (17 ha) of land in nearby Ellisfield with Geoffrey des Roches, the nephew of Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester.

Alice died without heirs while Joan des Roches, who outlived her husband, was temporarily holding the manor, and upon her death in 1361 Bradley was passed to her widowed daughter Mary, who almost immediately married Sir Bernard Brocas afterwards.

Although the younger Sir Bernard was executed at Tyburn for treason at the accession of Henry IV, the land was not forfeited and remained in the Brocas family until 1621, until it was leased to Thomas Taylor for 200 years.

[6] Aside from a large solar energy farm constructed near the boundary to Bentworth in 2014, there have been no contemporary developments in the village.

[7][8] Bradley lies in the extreme south-eastern corner of the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire in South East England.

[9][10] The parish covers an area of 975 acres (395 ha) and has a spot height of 170 metres (560 ft) above sea level.

[2] Since 1960, much of Bradley Wood has been cut down with the remainder being transferred into the Home Farm Woodland Trust park, in Bentworth.

[12] According to the 2011, census the village had a population of 202 people, of which 38.4% of them were in full-time employment, slightly higher than the national average of 37.7%, and 11.6% were self-employed.

[1] The village falls under the Basingstoke and Deane parliament constituency, represented in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Maria Miller since 2005.

[14] In County Council elections, Hampshire is divided into 75 electoral divisions that return a total of 78 councillors.

The church roof consists of red tiles with a small broach spire and a wooden turret.

The walls are made of flint with stone dressed buttresses and the windows date from the Restoration period.

A tiled roof is hipped at the north end and its walls consist of red brick with Flemish bond.