Badley, a parish in Suffolk, near the river Gipping, 2 miles WNW of Needham-Market station on the G.E.R. Post town, Needham-Market, the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1078; population, 83. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £40. Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is an old Gothic building of stone.