Bredwardine

{{Short description|Village in Herefordshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

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|country = England

|coordinates = {{coord|52.095|-2.976|display=inline,title}}

|official_name = Bredwardine

|population =

|unitary_england = Herefordshire

|lieutenancy_england = Herefordshire

|region= West Midlands

|constituency_westminster = Hereford and South Herefordshire

|post_town= HEREFORD|postcode_district = HR3

|postcode_area= HR |dial_code = 01981

|os_grid_reference = SO335445

|static_image_name = Old Court, Bredwardine (geograph 4040388).jpg

|static_image_caption = Old Court, Bredwardine

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Bredwardine is a village and civil parish in the west of Herefordshire, England.

Significant parish landmarks include a brick bridge over the River Wye, the historic Red Lion late 17th-century coaching inn,Nikolaus Pevsner: Herefordshire (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1963). St Andrew's Church, and the site of Bredwardine Castle. The Wye Valley Walk passes through the village which is on the B4352 road.

The name is pronounced to rhyme with "dine", and means "Brid's farm".[http://www.melocki.org.uk/places/B.html#Bredwardine Herefordshire placenames]

Notable people associated with Bredwardine include Rowland Vaughan (1559–1629), the landowner and pioneer of irrigation, who was born here; Hadrian Cook, et al. "The origin of water meadows in England". British Agricultural History Society. [http://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/51n2a2.pdf Retrieved 4 March 2014.] Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894), the archaeologist, who was raised in Bredwardine, where his father was vicar;ODNB: B. F. Cook, "Newton, Sir Charles Thomas (1816 [baptised] – 1894)", [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20051 Retrieved 4 March 2014, pay-walled.] and Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), the diarist and cleric who was vicar of Bredwardine from late 1877 until his death on 23 September 1879.ODNB: A. L. Le Quesne, "Kilvert, (Robert) Francis (1840–1879)", rev. Brenda Colloms [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37634 Retrieved 4 March 2014, pay-walled.]