[2] It is situated approximately 13 miles (21 km) north from the town of Boston, 2 miles (3 km) south from the town of Spilsby, and is located on the southern most edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, an National Landscape and marks the point where the Wolds gives way to the flat Lincolnshire Fens.

East Keal church is dedicated to Saint Helen, dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and is built in Early English and Perpendicular styles.

It was extensively rebuilt in 1853–54 by Stephen Lewin but retains many of its original features.

[4] Edmund de Grimsby, later a prominent judge and Crown official, was parish priest here in the 1320s.

The East Keal brickworks site was partially excavated by the archaeologist and folklorist Ethel Rudkin.