Bradfield St Clare, Suffolk

Historical Description

Bradfield-St-Clare, a parish in Suffolk, 1 mile SE of Whelnetham station on the G.E.R., and 5½ miles SE by S of Bury-St-Edmunds, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Cockfield. Acreage, 1427; population, 216. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £213 with residence. The church, a building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1874. There is an old moated mansion here, now used as a farmhouse, which was formerly a retreat of the monks of Bury.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Clare from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bradfield St. Clare)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bradfield St Clare 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:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press