Northern parish of the Isle of Man, occupying part of the low ground beyond Andreas towards the Point of Ayre.

Robertson’s late eighteenth-century survey records forty-two quarterlands in Kirk Bride. The parish formed part of Ayre Sheading and, like the neighbouring northern parishes, was principally agricultural.

Bride supported two annual fairs in Robertson’s list, one in February and another in May. The parish register figures he printed give thirty-seven baptisms, ten marriages and twenty-three burials in 1792; thirty-six baptisms, nine marriages and seventeen burials in 1793; and forty-three baptisms, eighteen marriages and twenty-four burials in 1794. The totals continued to fluctuate during the following two years.

The parish church was served in 1798 by the Rev. Thomas Corlett. Robertson noted that Bride had no vicarage house, one of the parishes in which the incumbent lacked a proper clerical residence.

Its northern position also placed Bride within the landscape of the Ayre. The parish lay close to the coast and the extensive flat ground around the Point of Ayre, in marked contrast with the mountainous interior further south.

The parish retained a substantial body of antiquarian and folklore material, although the present evidence pack is strongest for its eighteenth-century administrative, ecclesiastical and demographic record.