[8] The Bellevue Tower still stands in the village and is most likely the remains of a smock mill built in 1721 on the orders of Sir Jacob Astley.

There is an abandoned railway line which is considered as a footpath, it runs parallel with an old track "the lane" that leads up to Bellevue Tower.

[14] Within St. Maurice's Churchyard there is a large monument made from stone dedicated to a family of local landowners, the Breretons.

The village's national constituency is North Norfolk, which has been represented by the Liberal Democrat Steff Aquarone MP since 2024.

It lists the following names for the First World War:[16] And the following names for the Second World War: In addition, Frederick W. Jarvis, a native of Briningham, was killed during the Norwich Blitz, part of the Baedeker Blitz, when a Luftwaffe bomb hit his house on 41, Patterson Road on the 27 April 1942.