Framingham Earl's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the village or homestead of Fram's people.

[1] Framingham Earl has been identified as the site of possible Roman settlement due to the discovery of coins, pottery, tiles and bricks during an excavation of a new gas pipeline in 1992.

At the time the villages were divided between the East Anglian estates of King William I, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, Roger Bigod and Godric the Steward.

[4] Framingham Earl falls within the constituency of South Norfolk and is represented at Parliament by Richard Bacon MP of the Conservative Party.

Framingham Earl's war memorial takes the form of a marble plaque with a carved wooden border, located inside St. Thomas' Church.