Located around five miles west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 170,[1] increasing to 171 at the 2011 Census.

The parish council is shared with neighbouring Barrow.

The mediaeval church of St Mary's was restored in 1846 and is a grade II* listed building.

In the chapel is a large canopied table monument to MP Sir Edward Lewkenor and his wife of Denham Hall who both died in 1605 of smallpox.

[3] Media related to Denham, West Suffolk at Wikimedia Commons