Located in the neighbouring parish of Bacton, Suffolk on the Great Eastern Main Line, the station provided a train link to London and Norwich.

The station was closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching Axe, although the line remains open and runs over the nearby Wickham Road.

[7] In 1999, a memorial[8] was installed in the church to commemorate the powers of observation and recording shown in historian John Frere’s publication of Stone Age artefacts found near Hoxne[9] in the late 1700s.

Frere’s excavations and discoveries have resulted in this area of Mid Suffolk being considered one of the most important middle Pleistocene sites in Europe.

John Marius Wilson described the church as "ancient but good; and has a fine font, and monuments of the Freres and the Fenns.

The village is situated on the 'High Suffolk' claylands, deposited on the Ice Ages over the chalk that underlies most of the county.

[13] This could be because of the higher proportion of elderly people (22.8% were over 65 years old[13]) who may have retired and live in rural villages such as Finningham.

[18] 'In the 1970s and continuing into the 1980s and 1990s, it became increasingly difficult to find women to hoe, weed, pick stones, and the like, work which on the whole was neither skilled nor unduly heavy'.

[17] This, combined with increasing mechanisation and changing patterns of land use meant that the demand for such jobs declined, so women had to find work in the manufacturing and tertiary sectors.