Brandon

Brandon, a quaint old market-town, mostly on the Suffolk side of the Little Ouse, 7½ miles NW. of Thetford, and 86 NE. of London by rail. It has a considerable trade in corn and rabbit-furs. In the neighbourhood are the Grimes Graves, demonstrated by Canon Greenwell to be Neolithic flint-workings. Gun-flints are still made here, chiefly for the African market; and the continuity of this industry can be traced at Brandon in unbroken sequence to the early prehistoric periods, when the flint was excavated with stone tools and picks made of the antlers of the red deer. Pop. of parish, 2334.