BADLEY, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (W. N. W.)
from Needham, containing 84 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk,
and diocese of Norwich, and in the patronage of the
Earl of Ashburnham and C. Boone, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. The navigable river Gep
flows through the parish. The hall, once the seat of
the Pooleys, is now a farm-house.