Brandeston is a village in Suffolk, England on the River Deben 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Ipswich.

"[4]Brandeston Hall, the largest building in the village, is now the preparatory department of nearby Framlingham College.

It was largely destroyed in a fire in 1847 and rebuilt as an exact replica by its then owner Charles Austin QC, who married Harriet Jane Ingilby of Ripley Castle and died at the hall.Sutton Hoo, a few miles away from Brandeston, is the ceremonial burial place of the first English kings, who led their people through the misty marshlands of what is now the River Deben and established their first settlements on its banks.

[8] Lowes was accused of witchcraft by the self-styled 'Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins, and was tried at the 1645 Bury St Edmunds witch trial where he was hanged.

[9] Lowes story was dramatised as part of Ronald Bassett's 1966 novel Witchfinder General which was released as a film two years later.

[13] The graph titled 'Occupational structure for Brandeston in 1881' shows the dominance of men working during this time.