Writing in 1932, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, wrote the following notes concerning Maiden Bradley:
The farmhouse of –
“New Mead, is the birthplace of Edmund Ludlow, the famous Parliamentary general, and one of Charles I’s judges . . . . He distinguished himself by his defence of Wardour Castle . . . . He protested in the Convention Parliament against the Restoration, and then took refuge at Vesey in Switzerland, where he lived until 1692, and where he composed his “Memoirs’. He is buried there in St. Martin’s Church in the congenial company of Broughton, who read the sentence of death pronounced on the King . . . .”
The old-fashioned inn at Bradley (The Somerset Arms?) was his residence which the Royalists destroyed after their unsuccessful attack at Hill Deverill.