The Church of St Brendon is 2 mi (3 km) from the village and was built in 1738, possibly with building material brought from another site.

[2][3][4] The name contains two Old English place-name elements, the first – from brom – referring to the plant broom and the second – from dun – which tends to signify a fairly extensive and flat hill or upland expanse.

[6] White's Devonshire Directory (1850) describes Brendon as follows: A small village 1½ miles SE of Lynton & 15 miles W of Minehead is in a picturesque valley of the river Lyn, has in its parish 271 souls & 6733 acres of land including Leeford hamlet & a large tract of moorland on the borders of Somersetshire where the rivers Exe, Lyn and Barle have their sources.

The parsonage is a small cottage, and the church [St. Brendon] is an ancient structure with a tower and 4 bells.

[1]Brendon is home to the Exmoor Folk Festival,[7] and is both on the route of the Coleridge Way and the Samaritans Way South West.