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Many of the outlying farmhouses, and some of the houses in the Street date back four or five hundred years. The oldest of these is at 6-10 The Street and was formerly the Bell Inn. The largest expansion of the village took place in the 1960's, though smaller areas of housing are still being added to this day.

The River Gipping passes through the village and was once a navigable waterway carrying goods from Ipswich to Stowmarket. It was opened to barges in 1793 having had locks built and major bends straightened. With the coming of the railway in 1846, barges became less popular, and eventually ceased completely around 1930.

Bramford has always been an agricultural community. The only industrial area in the village was along Paper Mill Lane. Rushbrooks Mill used to make paper, but before that was a fulling mill, which is a process in making cloth. In the 19th century chemical fertilisers were produced by 3 companies, Fisons, Packard and Prentice, who eventually merged to become Fisons, and is now Levington Horticulture. Also along Paper Mill Lane there used to be a brick works and a tar mill.

The parish used to be much larger than it is today, with the eastern boundary extending as far as Whitton, into what is now Ipswich. In 1801 the population was 552. In 1841 it was 833. Today it is about 2500.