Description
Bredfield, a parish in Suffolk, 2 miles NW from Melton station on the G.E.R., and 3 N of Woodbridge. It has a post office under Woodbridge, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1107; population of civil parish, 375; of ecclesiastical, with Pettistree, 625. Bredfield House is an ancient mansion standing in a park of 65 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, with Lowdham and Pettistree annexed; joint net value, £168 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, was restored in 1875.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
