[2] Its placename derivation is uncertain but Ekwall indicates that it probably means "the village of Ealdhere's people":[3] the similarity to Aldeburgh is coincidental or the result of assimilation.

[4] The manor of Aldringham, and its church (a vicarage), were in the lordship of Ranulf de Glanvill, Chief Justiciar of England to Henry II, who founded the Augustinian Priory of Butley (1171) and the Premonstratensian Abbey at Leiston (c. 1183).

[4] Although the last-named Robert was granted the reversion of the manor of Benhall (with its patronage of Butley Priory and Leiston Abbey) in 1337, this did not mature until the death of Eleanor Ferre in 1349,[6] after which the 1st Earl of Suffolk busied himself with the relocation of Leiston Abbey to a new site away from those destabilizing marine inundations to which Minsmere was sometimes exposed.

[4] During the early 17th century, King James I granted the rectory of Aldringham (including the neighbouring chapelry of Thorpe), with its tithes, to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who sold it in 1626; in 1640 it was again sold to Daniel Eliab and Matthew Harvey, and to their heirs forever, which heirs were still holding in the early 1700s.

The grade II listed Parrot and Punchbowl pub is situated in Aldringham and dates back to the late 1500s.