The north–south road through the village was formerly the A363 but this was diverted to the north in the late 1990s when White Horse Business Park was developed.

The parish extends some 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of North Bradley village, beyond Brokerswood to the boundary with the county of Somerset, near Rudge.

At the time of the Domesday Book, North Bradley was part of the manor of Steeple Ashton, in the hundred of Whorwellsdown.

After disputes over the inheritance, the manor was settled on his younger son, also Walter, and descended with the Long family of Draycot Cerne.

Miss Rachel Long (d. 1781) created two charities for the poor of both parishes based on a charge of £5 each on the manor of North Bradley and this was still being paid well into the early 20th century.

[3] The manor descended through the Tylney-Longs and Long-Wellesleys until it was finally sold by Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley in 1864; then in 1879 it was bought by Walter Hume Long of Rood Ashton.

[12] The area around the church, in the southwest of North Bradley ecclesiastical parish, was transferred to Dilton Marsh in 1973.