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Bradford on Tone is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the River Tone south west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The parish, which includes Tone Green, has a population of 622.〔 The village is centred on the meeting of three roads: two of these come from the A38, the main road between the towns of Taunton and Wellington, while the third leads north to the nearby village of Oake. Around this junction are situated the local pub, ''The White Horse'', a war memorial, the Church of St Giles, the Village Hall and some older residential buildings. The name ''Bradford'' is undoubtedly English: it shows the village to have stood in Saxon days near a ''broad ford'', or passageway across the River Tone. The parish of Bradford was part of the Taunton Deane Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The 14th-century Bradford Bridge over the Tone〔(Images of England: Bradford Bridge )〕 is said to have been 'built by the monks', though it is not known which particular monks did the work. In the 1830s the Grand Western Canal was under construction and included a bridge at Trefusis Farm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 On 16 May 1991 Bradford on Tone was the site of a major chemical incident when a train carrying kerosene, petrol and diesel was derailed and caught fire. The fire service took two days to put the fire out and there was significant environmental damage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Avon and Somerset local resilience forum — individual risk assessment )〕 The cause of the accident was an axle failure on one of the tank wagons. ==Governance== The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of Taunton Deane, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Wellington Rural District. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning. There is also an electoral ward in the same name. The ward however stretches northwards to Oake and west to Langford Budville. The total population of this ward at the 2011 census is 2,337. It is also part of the Taunton Deane county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bradford on Tone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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