The Manor House built circa 1575 and extended circa 1625. It is assumed that this is close to the site of an earlier medieval manor an is elevated at approximately 12m above sea level with magnificent views over the surrounding area. The house was extensively altered in the Victorian period and boasts many victorian features such as the wonderful sash windows and cast iron fireplaces.

Bawdsey, pronounced Bord-zy with the emphasis on the first syllable, on the end of the Wilford Hundred Peninsula with the North Sea on the east and the tidal River Deben to the south and west.

In the Domesday Book Bawdsey appears as Baldesia. Baldhere was probably an early Anglo-Saxon settler, perhaps a local leader under King Raedwald, King of east Anglia, who is presumed to have been buried at Sutton Hoo on the royal burial field over looking the Deben some six miles away.