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BRINKLEY is a village and parish, 3 miles south from Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Newmarket section of the Great Eastern railway and 6 south-south west from Newmarket, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Radfield, Newmarket union and county court district, rural deanery of Fordham (Cambridgeshire), archdeanery of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. The church of the Blessed Virgin, restored in 1874 by the rector and parishioners, at an expense of about £1,000, is a building of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells ; the chancel and nave are Decorated and the tower perpendicular : there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1685. The living is a rectory, net yearly value from £180, with 220 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and held since 1808 by the Rev. William Henry Bray M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge. The proceeds of a charity, amounting to about £2 yearly, are distributed among the poor. Brinkley Hall is the residence of Robert William King, esq. D.L., J.P. the lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is chalk; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The area is 1,303 acres; rateable value, £1,680; the population in 1891 was 278. By an order which came into operation March 25, 1886, a detached part of this parish was amalgamated with Carleton, in Linton union. National School (boys and girls), erected in 1844 for 60 children; average attendance, 50; and endowed with about £20 yearly, derived from March’s charity; Mrs. Martha Warr, mistress.