At the centre of the village is the Twelfth Century church of St Mary the Virgin, featuring a medieval wall painting.

Further along the B1113 and still in Bacton is Finbow's Yard, a small trading estate which is home to a range of businesses including car sales, mobility shop, furniture store, white goods dealer and repairer, the Heart of Suffolk Distillery (home of Betty's Gin) and a large hardware store and builders merchants, with its builders yard across the road in Cotton, alongside Emzo's gift shop & coffee shop and a hairdressers.

At the western end of the village is a flourishing business park with various units including one offering local pizza deliveries and a 'Men's Shed' community workshop.

The Great Eastern Main Line railway between London and Norwich runs through the east end of the village, but Finningham railway station and its goods yard, which was situated in Bacton, was closed in the Beeching cuts of the sixties and only the station building remains, now a private house.

However, if you have a car, there is rail access to London via the nearby town of Stowmarket in 80 minutes, which has encouraged an influx of 'townie' commuters into what was previously a very rural community.