Melville and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Norwich, Yarmouth, Dereham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, Reepham, Foulsham, Hingham, &c.; Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Woodbridge, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Eye, Stowmarket, Needham Market, &c. [1856]

by F. R. Melville & Co.

BRADESTONE.

A long, straggling village, adjoining Brundall station, and extending 1¾ miles further E. by S., 7 miles E. of Norwich, and 126½ from London, in Blofield hundred, East Norfolk; containing about 160 inhabitants, and 510 acres of land, chiefly the property of T. G. Tuck, Esq., the lord of the adjoining manor, who farms the principal part of the land. The church of St. Michael is a handsome building with square tower, principally of flint, situated in a meadow half a mile N.E. of the village. The living is a rectory consolidated with Strumpshaw, and the incumbent is the Rev. E. S. Whitbread.

Agus, Sarah, victualler, White Horse

Chapman, Mary, shopkeeper

Gilbert, T. W., Esq., hall

Laws, William, shopkeeper

Miller, Wm. Chas., land agent

Postle, John, coal merchant

Smith James, blacksmith