Bredfield House

The house is best known as the birthplace Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), [1] who translated the Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm.

Edward described it in his poem of 1839, Bredfield Hall which starts thus:[2] "Lo, an English mansion founded In the elder James's reign, Quaint and stately, and surrounded With a pastoral domain."

Fitzgerald described the house as overlooking Hollesley Bay at the time when Horatio Nelson anchored there in 1801.

[2] It was also described elsewhere as somewhat gaunt and charmless, but in a good park with gardens and ponds and fine stables and kennels.

[3] Bredfield House was severely damaged by a V-1 flying bomb during World War II and has since been completely demolished.