The great mansion, which was the home of the Dickins, Usborne and other families has unfortunately been demolished but has been replaced by three large residences.

The building has evolved over the years and is the product of a great deal of love and care which people of many periods and traditions have lavished upon it.

Another prominent feature in the village is the WWI Memorial situated at Tillbrooks Hill and bordering Queen Street.

1839-1840 Bury and Norwich Post newspaper archive August 7, 1839 At Cowlinge Fair on Wednesday last, a brutal outrage was committed on Sergeant Johnson of the 94th Foot, he has been for several years stationed in Bury on recruiting service, his party enlisted five recruits at the Fair, two of them fell fighting and Johnson intervened to stop them when about 20-30 desperate characters set upon him with sticks and beat him in a savage manner, such was the force that the whalebone support of his hat and the brass on the peak broke, but for the protection these afforded him his life would have been sacrificed, the ruffians attempted to draw his sword but Johnson with exemplary coolness drew the blade and declared he would use it against his countrymen, he was rescued by Mr Bryant from Newmarket by riding his horse into the crowd.

The mob afterwards demolished several stalls and threw ginger beer bottles about and staved in a cask of beer and we believe broke woman's arm, 10 were apprehended of whom four were committed to Bury gaol for rioting, they were Samuel Outlaw, Edward Reeve, John Race and George Stigwood for violent assault on John Coe and his wife at Cowlinge Fair.