Nearby is Brockford Station, part of The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway which closed under B.R.

In 1844 the hamlet housed a grocer/draper, two carpenters, a shoemaker, beerhouse keeper, victualler, saddler and six farmers.

In 1912 this had expanded to six farmers, a carpenter, three surgeons, a horse slaughterer, a blacksmith, carrier/carpenter, newsagent, shopkeeper, publican, saddler and a cattle dealer.

[2] A church in Brockford is mentioned in Joceline de Brakelond's writings of 1198, but has since disappeared without a trace; even the dedication is unknown.

[2] Brockford hosted a beerhouse along with the Griffin pub (still standing; grade 2 listed early 16th century house, extended to the right in the 17th century and closed as the pub in the early 1960s[3]) with a beer retailer added by 1891.