Bramford, Suffolk

Historical Description

Bramford, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Gipping, and on the G.E.R., 2½ miles NW of Ipswich, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ipswich. Acreage of parish, 3280; population of the civil parish, 1408; of the ecclesiastical, including Burstall, 1393. There are several chalk pits, and extensive manure and cement works. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Burstall, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles. There is an almshouse for five widows, and there are also some small charities.

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 Bramford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Bramford 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