Bradfield St George, Suffolk
Historical Description
Bradfield-St-George, a parish in Suffolk, 1 mile NE of Whelnetham station on the G.E.R., and 4½ miles SE of Bury-St-Edmunds, under which it has post office; money order office, Felsham; telegraph office, Rougham. Acreage, 1968; population of civil parish, 388; of ecclesiastical, including Bushbrook, 521. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bushbrook, in the diocese of Ely; net value, £410 with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Bristol. The church, a building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, has a tower, seen over a wide extent of country. West Lodge is a chief residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Hundred | Thedwastry | |
Poor Law union | Thingoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bradfield St George from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bradfield St. George, or Monks-Bradfield)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bradfield St George are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: