Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRUISYARD

BRUISYARD, a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; on the river Alde, 3 miles NE of Framlingham r. station, and 4½ WNW of Saxmundham. Post Town, Cransford, under Wickham-Market. Acres, 1,126. Real property, £1,794. Pop., 222. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Stradbroke. A chantry or college was removed hither, in 1354, from Campsey; changed afterwards into a nunnery; and given, at the dissolution, to Nicholas Hare. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £60. Patron, the Earl of Stradbroke. The church has two brasses.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bruisyard AP/CP       Plomesgate RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Bruisyard

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