Description

Bruisyard, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Aide, 3 miles NE of Framlingham station on the G.E.R., and 4 1/2 WNW of Saxmundham. There is a post office under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Peasenhall. Acreage of parish, 1138 ; population, 252. 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; net value, £60. Patron, the Earl of Stradbroke. The church, a small building of flint in the Perpendicular style, has a brass of 1611.