BRADENHAM (West), a parish in Swaffham district, Norfolk; on the river Wissey, 3¼ miles S by W of Wendling r. station, and 5½ SW by W of East Dereham. It has a post office under Thetford. Acres, 1,682. Real property, £3.019. Pop., 387. Houses, 88. The manor of West Bradenham belongs to W. Haggard, Esq.; that of Bokenham Hall to B. Girling, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £290.* Patron, the Bishop of N. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1857. There are a national school, and charities £24.

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