The Sign
The sign stands outside the village hall and was erected in 1995. The sign was designed by art student Victoria King, the local blacksmiths, Pearce & Sons, did the wrought ironwork and Mary Moore the sculpting and production. The roundel in the centre depicts a farmer ploughing the field in the old traditional way with two horses representing agriculture, and the church of St Andrew both with a backdrop of a shining sun. The original sign was in full colour, but now the outside ring is just blackened. Around the outside are a series of symbols representing village life:

• Women's Institute logo, with a tree in the background
• Mother and Child representing family
• A tennis player representing the village tennis courts
• Fruit and vegetables which may represent local market gardening
• Theatrical masks for the local Bredfield Amateur Dramatics Society
• Bread for the local shop or bakery
• Barley and beer tankard for the local pub, the Castle Inn
• A man bowling for the local bowls club and bowling green
• Blacksmith for the local forge
• Mother's Union logo

There is another earlier sign built around the old water pump at a road junction elsewhere in the village. It is made of wrought iron and topped with a crown, which was made by the local forge to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

The Name and Population
The population was 340 at the 2011 census. Many variations on the name in the Domesday Book: Berdefelda / Berdesfella / Bradefelda / -fella / Bredefeld(a) / -fella. The name means "Broad open land". It is possible that the first element may have originally stood alone as 'the broad plain', with 'open land' a later addition, from Old English.

Other Points of Interest
The church is dedicated to St Andrew. The Church has an unusual Victorian East window dedicated, by his “devoted and sorrowing mother”, to her son who died aged 29. 

Bredfield is the likely real world location of Dr. Rant/ Mr. Eldred's house who are both characters who appear in the Tractate Middoth a short ghost story by M.R. James first published in More Ghost Stories