BRADNINCH, or BRAINES, a decayed borough in the
hundred of Hayridge, Devonshire, 9 miles N.E. of Exeter.
It is pleasantly situated on an eminence surrounded
by higher hills, except on the south, and consists for the
most part of neat thatched cottages. It has a fine old church,
guildhall, gaol, court-house, and national school; two paper-
mills, and a small woollen factory. Pop. (1851) 1834. It
is governed by a mayor, 12 masters, and 24 burgesses, and
before the time of Henry VII. returned two members to
parliament.