Brinkley, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire, 3 miles S from Dullingham station on the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 S by W of Newmarket. The parish has a post office under Six Mile Bottom (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, West Wratting. Acreage, 1303 ; population, 278. Brinkley Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £194 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles. It was restored in 1874.