Bredy

But the Port – Bredy burgesses a mile inland had, in the course of ten centuries, responded many times to that mute appeal, with the result that the tides had invariably choked up their works with sand and shingle as soon as completed.

Wessex Tales 2006

By the time the last hour of that, to Barnet, eventful year had chimed, every vestige of him had disappeared from the precincts of his native place, and the name became extinct in the borough of Port – Bredy, after having been a living force therein for more than two hundred years.

Wessex Tales 2006

Soon after attending the funeral of his poor young wife he took steps towards giving up the farms in Holmstoke and the adjoining parish, and, having sold every head of his stock, he went away to Port – Bredy, at the other end of the county, living there in solitary lodgings till his death two years later of a painless decline.

Wessex Tales 2006

Halfway between the shore and Port – Bredy town he had met Charlson, who had been the first surgeon to hear of the accident.

Wessex Tales 2006

“If you can get this posted at a place some miles away,” he whispered, exhausted by the effort of writing — “at Shottsford or Port – Bredy, or still better, Budmouth — it will divert all suspicion from this house as the place of my refuge.”

The Woodlanders 2006

Bredy, a village which, of no interest in itself, has been made a scene of much beauty by the artificial widening of the little Bride just below its source as it passes through the grounds of Bridehead.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

After again leaving Marlott, her home, she had got through the spring and summer without any great stress upon her physical powers, the time being mainly spent in rendering light irregular service at dairy-work near Port-Bredy to the west of the Blackmoor Valley, equally remote from her native place and from Talbothays.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

Elizabeth-Jane after her return indoors she told her that she had resolved to go away from home to the seaside for a few days -- to Port-Bredy; Casterbridge was so gloomy.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

At the last moment of leaving Port-Bredy, Farfrae, like John

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Bredy, and took charge of High-Place Hall till her return.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887