Little Bradley, Suffolk

Historical Description

Bradley, Little, a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk, on the verge of the county, 6½ miles N of Haverhill station on the G.E.R. Post town, Newmarket; money order and telegraph office, Little Thurlow. Acreage, 972; population, 75. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; tithe commuted at £250. The church, a small but ancient structure of flint with a round tower, has a brass of John Daye the printer, who died in 1584, and four other brasses. It is filled with painted windows-one in memory of John Daye, given by the Stationers' Company in 1880, of which company he was master in 1580.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Little Bradley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bradley, Little (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Little Bradley 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