BRADFIELD
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
BRADFIELD, a parish in Tendring district, Essex; on the estuary of the Stour, and on the Harwich branch of the Eastern Union railway, 3 miles E by S of Manningtree. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Manningtree. Acres, 2,719, of which 600 are water. Real property, £5,057. Pop., 914. Houses, 212. The property is subdivided. Bradfield Lodge is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Mistley, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is good. Speaker Grimston, of the time of Charles II., was a native.
Transcribed by Noel Clark