There is a wide range of information available on-line that can be used to gain information about Brandon and the surrounding area. The following list, in no particular order, will give you a starting point.
St Edmundsbury Chronicle
A wonderful site with a great deal of information about Suffolk and beyond, the St Edmundsbury Chronicle home page
Suffolk Heritage Explorer
The online Historic Environment Record for Suffolk. Discover more about Suffolk’s rich archaeological heritage, with over 40,000 sites recorded across the county, from palaeolithic flint tools to medieval manors to Cold War military and much more.
Parish histories:
https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/parish-histories
National Library Of Scotland
A wonderful source, with historic Ordnance Survey maps in every available scale.
The home page is at https://maps.nls.uk
Side by side map which should take you to Brandon
similar with LiDAR imagery (there are many more combinations)
There are may historic OS maps and sheets available eg. this 6” 1844 includes Brandon.
More maps
Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer
Aerial Photo Explorer
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos
Building Stones Database for England map explorer
Magic Maps
https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.html
West Suffolk Planning – Map Search
Vision of Britain maps
https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps
Old Maps Online
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/England#position=12.3641/52.4395/0.6019&year=1900
Britain from Above
https://britainfromabove.org.uk
Brandon Flint Buildings – Walls
https://www.westsuffolk.gov.uk/planning/Conservation/upload/BrandonFlintBuildingsWalls.pdf
Brandon conservation area boundary listed buildings
Turnpikes
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Turnpikes_by_County
Suffolk Turnpikes
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Suffolk_Turnpikes
Norfolk Turnpikes
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Norfolk_Turnpikes
Foxearth – Miscellaneous old maps
http://www.foxearth.org.uk/Maps/
Other stuff
Gazetteer of British Place Names ~ The Association of British Counties
GaugeMap, Abbey Heath
https://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Detail/1674/1815
Monitoring Station Information for Abbey Heath | Flood Assist Insurance
https://floodassist.co.uk/river-data/gauges/norfolk/e23730-level-stage-i-15_min-m/abbey-heath
Suffolk Record office
https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk
GeoSuffolk
Lakenheath Heritage Group
https://lakenheathparishcouncil.gov.uk/lakenheath-heritage
Definitive maps of public rights of way
Suffolk County Council
also
https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/suffolk
Spanton Jarman Project
Spanton Jarman Project – Background to the Collection
This unique collection of over 4000 glass negatives is the work of four generations of commercial photographers working in Bury St Edmunds from the 1860s to the 1930s.
Staunch Meadow, Brandon, Suffolk: a high status Middle Saxon settlement on the fen edge
A Norse Camp at Brandon by Claude Morley
From Volume X (1928–29) The Saga-Book Archive
George West published a volume of poems about some local places:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035220931;view=1up;seq=129
Suffolk and Brandon clockmakers
http://ipswichbhi.org.uk/album/demo/makers/makers.htm
see also
http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/clocks/clocksc18.htm
An account of some skulls discovered at Brandon, Suffolk [Myers, Charles S]
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/u6yt9nrw
Bliss Mausoleum, Brandon Park
https://www.mmtrust.org.uk/view.php?name=151
Pubs and Inns in the UK
Here’s Brandon:
https://pubshistory.com/Suffolk/Brandon/brandon.shtml
Eagles trapped in ‘Brandon rabbit Warren’ in 1832
London Magazine of Natural History 6:448 (1833)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19636#page/462/mode/1up
The Witch of Brandon – connection with Hereward
http://www.whrin.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Witches_and_Witchcraft_in_Ely.pdf
See also
https://occult-world.com/pickingill-old-george
Suffolk in the XVIIth century: the Breviary of Suffolk, by Robert Reyce, 1618
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnzqrn&view=1up&seq=20
The rising in East Anglia in 1381 : with an appendix containing the Suffolk poll tax lists for that year. by Powell, Edgar, 1853-Publication date 1896.
https://archive.org/details/risingineastangl00poweuoft
A GUIDE TO SECOND WORLD WAR ARCHAEOLOGY IN SUFFOLK
Guide 4: Stop Lines
https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/media/pdfs/ww2_guidebook4_stop_linesweb.pdf
The Churches of West Suffolk by T Hugh Bryant
https://archive.org/details/suffolkb01bryauoft
The manors of Suffolk; notes on their history and devolution, with some illustrations of the old manor housesby Copinger, Walter Arthur, 1847-1910
Seven volumes on this page somewhere
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Copinger%2C+Walter+Arthur%2C+1847-1910%22
The history and antiquities of the county of Suffolk: with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages
Volume 1
https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti01suckuoft
Volume 2
https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti02suck
Pilgrimage in medieval East Anglia A regional survey of the shrines and pilgrimages of Norfolk and Suffolk
https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63940/1/Pilgrimage_in_medieval_East_Anglia.pdf
National Archives Catalogue.
The online catalogue holds more than 37 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 3,500 archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download. Downloads are free if you register on the site.
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Genealogy
The major commercial genealogical sites are Ancestry and Find My Past. Full access subscriptions can be expensive, but both are available from the computers in the public library. If you’re super-organised you might be able to do your research during one of their “free access” periods or trials. Beware that you have to give payment details to use a free trial, and they will take money if you fail to cancel before the free period ends.
The indexes of Births and Deaths for England and Wales can be searched for free on the General Register Office website.
The largest free genealogical website is Family Search from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The site includes transcriptions and images of church registers, transcriptions of the decennial census returns, indexes to the GRO records of births marriages and deaths and much more. Beware that the family trees on the website are user contributed and can be changed by anyone, so should not be relied on.
Free UK Genealogy, a non-profit organisation founded in 1998, are the leading free genealogy website for UK family history. Their free websites are FreeBMD (covering civil birth, marriage and death records); FreeREG (parish registers) and FreeCEN (census records). Each site offers millions of searchable record transcriptions, indexed by volunteers and completely free.
English and Welsh wills can be searched for on the government Find a Will site. Searches are free, if you want to read the will copies can be bought for a small fee. NB older will can be found on the National Archives site for free.
GENUKI does not offer searchable records but it is still an invaluable free resource for anyone researching UK or Irish genealogy. Maintained by an army of volunteers, it is packed with information on what records are available and where to find them.