BRENT-ELEIGH, or Brent-Ely, a parish in Cosford district, Suffolk; near the river Bret, 7 miles NE by N of Sudbury r. station. Post Town, Lavenham, under Sudbury. Acres, 1,617. Real property, £2,519. Pop., 228. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few. Brent Hall belonged once to the Sheltons, and passed to the Agars. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £369.* Patron, Mrs. Brown. The church shows Norman features, has a later English tower, and is good; and there are charities £90. A market was formerly held in the parish.

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