Bramfield, Suffolk

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bramfield like this:

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. ...

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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.

Bramfield through time

Bramfield is now part of EAST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bramfield itself, go to Statistics.

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