BRAMFORD, a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; on the river Gipping, and on the Eastern Union railway, 2¼ miles NW of Ipswich. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ipswich. Acres, 3,2.26. Real property, £6,735. Pop., 1,019. Houses, 216. There are a paper mill, chalk pits, and extensive manure and cement works. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Burstall, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £79.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church was restored in 1866. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £25.

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