Bradfield-St-Clare, a parish in Suffolk, 1 mile SE of Whelnetham station on the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 miles SE by S of Bury-St-Edmunds, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Cockfield. Acreage, 1427; population, 216. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £213 with residence. The church, a building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1874. There is an old moated mansion here, now used as a farmhouse, which was formerly a retreat of the monks of Bury.
