The parish is long and narrow, stretching some three miles from its south-western limit, not far from Flowton Church, to its north-eastern extremity, beside the River Gipping near Claydon.

The Grade I listed[3] church of St Mary The Virgin is set upon a grassy chalky bank beside a narrow lane, a little above the houses of its village and beside the former Rectory - a house with Dutch gables which stands at a considerably lower level.

[6] The village has its own version of an old carol, surviving the days when the churches standardised onto a common hymnal.

The only thing Pete could find related to it was an Irish hymnal, which provided some similar verses and a tune, under the title "The Sinner's Redemption".

Pete eventually offered the material to folk trio Artisan from Yorkshire.