Description
Bradfield-Combust or Burnt-Bradfield, a parish in Suffolk, 1 1/2 mile S of Whelnetham station on the G.E.R., and 54 miles SSE of Bury-St Edmunds, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Cockfield. Acreage, 823; population, 130. Bradfield Hall is a chief residence. An edifice belonging to Bury Abbey stood in the parish, and was burned in 1327, giving rise to the adjunct "Combust." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £151. The church, a building of flint and stone in the Decorated style, was restored in 1869. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
