Description
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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
