Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAMFIELD

BRAMFIELD, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; on the East Suffolk railway, near the river Blythe, 2 miles S of Halesworth. It has a post office under Saxmundham. Acres, 2,546. Real property, £5,160. Pop., 649. Houses, 151. The property is much subdivided. Bramfield Hall is the seat of Col. Robinson. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £172.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early decorated English, without aisles; and has a rich screen, with rood-loft. A round tower stands detached. There are Independent and P. Methodist chapels, and an endowed school with £29 a year. An ancient oak here, which fell in 1843, is mentioned in the ballad relating to Hugh Bigod's flight in 1174:

When the Baily had ridden to Bramfield oak,
Sir Hugh was at Ilksale bower;
When the Baily had ridden to Halesworth cross,
He was singing in Bungay tower.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bramfield CP/AP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Bramfield

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