About this record

Braiseworth.com is a small, independent heritage record of the parish of Braiseworth, near Eye in Mid Suffolk. It gathers what the published record says about the place — its history, archaeology, churches, buildings, landscape, people and practical services — and sets each statement beside its source. It is not an official parish site, and it collects no personal data from visitors.

How it was researched

The content is built only from primary and official sources where they exist, and from good secondary sources where they do not. Among the main sources are Historic England’s National Heritage List, the Suffolk Historic Environment Record, Open Domesday, The National Archives’ Discovery catalogue, Suffolk Archives, the National Library of Scotland’s historic maps, Natural England, the Portable Antiquities Scheme, the London Gazette, and the parish history pack compiled by Suffolk County Council. Every source carries the date it was consulted.

How to read the evidence

Each factual line has been graded, and the site uses four plain treatments so a reader always knows how firm a statement is:

Corrections and contributions

This record is not complete, and it will contain mistakes. If you can correct something, or you have a photograph, a memory, a document or a family connection to Braiseworth, it would be genuinely welcome. Please send a note; anything used will be sourced and dated in the same way as everything else here. Please do not send anything you are not happy to see acknowledged publicly.

Last verified 25 August 2026

Primary and official

• SCC 2014 — Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, Parish History Pack: Braiseworth (2014). heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/media/pdfs/braiseworth.pdf
• HE — Historic England, National Heritage List for England: list entries 1352476, 1032267, 1032276, 1032268, 1032269, 1032270, 1032271, 1032272, 1032273, 1032274, 1032275, 1180379, 1352477, 1387457, 1459054. historicengland.org.uk
• OD — Open Domesday, “Braiseworth” (TM1371), Hartismere Hundred; Phillimore references Suffolk 6,226 and 6,228. opendomesday.org
• ONS 2021 — Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, Braiseworth parish.
• NE — Natural England, SSSI citation for Major Farm Meadow (notified 1986), as summarised in Wikipedia, “Major Farm Meadow”.
• SHER — Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Historic Environment Record: MSF40542 (Braiseworth Old Hall Farm); DSF12510 (Church Farmhouse).

Gazetteers and reference

• Wilson 1870 — John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72), via A Vision of Britain through Time, University of Portsmouth. visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7053
• NG 1868 — The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868), via GENUKI. genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Braiseworth
• Ekwall — Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (for the meaning of the name; cited in SCC 2014).
• Wikipedia — “Braiseworth”; “Edward Buckton Lamb”; “Janet Frame”; “Major Farm Meadow”.
• Te Ara — Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, “Frame, Janet Paterson”.

Architectural and church history

• Knott 2010 — Simon Knott, Suffolk Churches: “St Mary, Braiseworth (old church)” and “St Mary, Braiseworth (new church)”, June 2010. suffolkchurches.co.uk
• CRSBI — Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, “Old St Mary, Braiseworth” (item 3408). crsbi.ac.uk
• Cautley — H. Munro Cautley, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures (1937), as cited by Knott.
• Pevsner — Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, as cited by Knott and by Wikipedia.
• GPR — Gravestone Photographic Resource, St Mary (Old) Church burial ground, Braiseworth (cemetery 3905).

Where sources differ

• Domesday population: Open Domesday counts 34 households across the entries; SCC 2014 gives “36 recorded”. Both are shown.
• Population and houses about 1870: Wilson (1870–72) gives 164 people in 30 houses; SCC 2014 gives 160 people in 28 houses for 1871. Both are shown.
• Area: 720 acres (Wilson, 1870) and 730 acres (SCC, 1912 figure).
• Redundancy of the new church: SCC 2014 gives 1976; Historic England and Wikipedia say “the 1970s”. The precise year is used.

Corrections

Corrections, additions, documents and photographs relating to Braiseworth are welcome through the site owner. Anything added will be sourced and dated in the same way.

Last verified 25 August 2026