During the Second World War, a starfish site was created on nearby Coxford Heath designed to draw Luftwaffe bombers away from King's Lynn.

East Rudham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and was rebuilt in the mid-Nineteenth Century in the Perpendicular style after the tower collapsed into the nave.

[6] St. Mary's boasts a font dating from 1852 as well as a brass plaque and a churchtower clock which commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The village's national constituency is North West Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's James Wild MP since 2010.

East and West Rudham's War Memorial takes the form of an obelisk topped with a wheel cross, located beside the A148.