Great Bricett, Suffolk
Historical Description
Bricett, Great, a parish in Suffolk, 2¾ miles E by N of Bildeston, and 4¼ SW of Needham Market station on the G.E.R. Post town, Bildeston (S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 926; population, 245. An Augustinian Priory was founded here in 1110 by Ralph Fitz-Brian, annexed to the monastery of Nobiliac in France, and conveyed in the time of Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £145 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is a plain building of flint in the Perpendicular style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Suffolk | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Bricett St. Mary and St. Lawrence | |
| Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
| Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Bricett from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bricett, Great (St. Mary and St. Lawrence))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Bricett 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: