In 1086, the village formed part of the East Anglian estates of King William I, Roger Bigod and Reginald, son of Ivo.

The hall still stands today, reputedly haunted by the Brown Lady and was the residence of Charles Townshend, an Eighteenth Century Secretary of State.

The church was largely rebuilt in the mid-Nineteenth Century on the site of an older Medieval building by Clark and Holland of Newmarket.

[8] Much of the area can be visited by a circular walk, which takes in mixed woodland, water meadows, arable land and historic buildings, almost entirely on the Raynham estate.

East Raynham's War Memorial is a stone column topped with a crucifix which was unveiled in July 1920 by Lady Agnes Durham and Bishop Temple Hamlyn.