It is on the A1101 road 5 miles NW from Bury St Edmunds.

Flempton takes its name from the Flemings who came from Flanders and settled the area in Anglo-Saxon times.

The Domesday Book records the population of Flempton in 1086 to be 16 households.

[1] St Catherine's church is a grade II* listed building whose tower was rebuilt in 1839 after it collapsed.

[4] The East of England Regional Assembly was based in Flempton House until 2010.