Bradfield St George

Bradfield St. George
Bradfield St. George
Bradfield St. George shown within Suffolk
Population	420 (2011)[1]
District	St Edmundsbury
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Bury St Edmunds
Postcode district	IP30
Dialling code	01284
Police	Suffolk
Fire	Suffolk
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England

Bradfield St. George is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Bury St Edmunds.

According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is 'broad field'.

The Domesday Book records the population (including Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare) to be 76 people in 1086. In 2001, the population was 386 people (not including Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare).

The village has a village hall built in 1955 which among other events holds the annual village barn dance.

The village is home to former England Cricketer and Sky Sports commentator Nick Knight.

In literature

The village was the setting for Adrian Bell's book Corduroy, published in 1930, though in the book Bell calls Bradfield "Benfield". Corduroy is the author's account of his life as a young man, forsaking the fashionable ballrooms and cocktail parties of Inter-war era Mayfair, to learn farming in Suffolk. Though unsentimental, Corduroy is at times thoughtful, humorous and wistful. Bell expertly depicts the joys, hardships and crises not just of farming, but of all rural life, made the more interesting for being told by a man who came to it as an outsider. Bell tells of ploughing, harvesting, livestock and grain markets, shooting, beating, ferreting and foxhunting, and the importance of nature and religion as twin pillars of the Suffolk countryman's life.

References

External links

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