Bridport was represented in parliament by two members from 1395 to 1867.
Bridport was incorporated by James I.
By the early thirteenth century the fortunes of Bridport were on the up.
The first existing grant of a market and fairs to Bridport is dated 1593, but it appears from the Quo Warranto Rolls that Edward I.
Dialect poet William Barnes wrote on Bridport Harbor.