Bradfield, Essex, England
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bradfield like this:
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, £5,027. 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 Charle IIS., was a native.
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, £5,027. 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 Charle IIS., was a native.