BROCKLEY, a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; on an affluent of the river Stour, 6½ miles SSW of Bury St. Edmunds r. station. Post Town, Lawshall, under Bury St. Edmunds. Acres, 1,565. Real property, £2,251. Pop., 340. Houses, 74. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £510.* Patron, the Rev. Mr. Cartwright. The church is an ancient structure, with a small tower; and contains a handsome monument of the Sprigges. There are a Baptist chapel, and charities £62.

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