Post Office Directory of 1865.
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GREAT BRADLEY is a parish, in Risbridge hundred and union, Haverhill
county court district, rural deanery of Clare, Sudbury archdeaconry and diocese
of Ely, West Suffolk, 6 ½ miles north-by-east from Haverhill, and 8 south from
Newmarket. The church of St. Mary was repaired in 1841. The living is a rectory,
with 52 acres of glebe, and a tithe rent charge of £600,'in the gift of Lord
Dacre, and held by the Rev. Bawtry Pigot, who is non-resident. A great part of
the land in this parish belongs to St. John's College, Cambridge. Lord Dacre is
lord of the manor. The soil is clay; the crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans,
peas and roots. In 1861 the population was 460; area, 2,280 acres.
Parish Clerk, William Webb.
Letters received from Newmarket arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Haverhill
is the nearest money order office
Parochial School, Miss Mary Tabraham, mistress
Crosby John, esq
Danby Mr. William
Crick Edward, cooper
Crosby John, surgeon
Dawson John, farmer
Day William, farmer
Lawrence James, tailor
Long Hanslip, farmer
Mitchell Joseph, farmer
Nice Thomas & Frederick, farmers & brick makers
Nice Hanslip, miller
Parnienter William, boot maker
Paxman Richard, beer retailer
Plumb Stephen, shopkeeper
Seabrook Frederick, horse dealer
Smith Chas. shopkeeper & beer retailer
Smith Jonas, farmer & corn dealer
Wakeling Joseph, Fox & Goose, & blacksmith
Wright Samuel, carpenter
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