Great Bradley (also known as Bradley MagnaJohn Blatchly, ''John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks'' (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004) ) is a village and

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in the

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district of

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in eastern England. According to

Eilert Ekwall Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877 in Vallsjö – 23 November 1964 in Lund) was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the firs ...

the meaning of the village name is the "wide clearing". The population is about 400 and includes Little Bradley.

History

There is evidence that people have lived in and around Great Bradley by the River Stour since the

Middle Stone Age The Middle Stone Age (or MSA) was a period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Late Stone Age. It is generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago. The beginnings of ...

over 5,000 years ago. John Killingworth (d.1617) of Little Bradley (later of Pampisford, etc.) obtained a grant (or confirmation) of Arms on 25 November 1586. When his father Richard died in October 1586 he requested in his Will that "My body is to be buried in the parish church of Great Bradley. 10 shillings to the said church."Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Will proved 3 Nov 1586. In the eighteenth century there was an annual fair held in the village on 29 September.

References

External links

* Great Bradley Village Websit

* Great Bradley Village Facebook Grou

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