Little Bradley is a small village and

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in the

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district, in the county of

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, 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 ''

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'' records the population of Little Bradley in 1086 (including

Great Bradley Great Bradley (also known as Bradley MagnaJohn Blatchly, ''John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks'' (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004) ) is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. According to ...

) to be 57. It lies in the valley of the River Stour, north of Haverhill. The population at the 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of

. The 11th century Church of All Saints is one of 38 existing

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es in Suffolk. It is a grade I listed building.

References

External links

Website with photos of Little Bradley
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Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk Borough of St Edmundsbury {{Suffolk-geo-stub