Fulmodeston's name is of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin and derives from the Old English and Old Norse for either Fulcmod's and Krok's settlement or village.

In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of William de Warenne.

[4] Fulmodeston falls within the constituency of Broadland and is represented at Parliament by Jerome Mayhew MP of the Conservative Party.

Fulmodeston's parish holds the ruins of St. Mary's Church and dates from the mid-Fifteenth Century.

Fulmodeston's war memorial takes the form of a wooden plaque listing the deceased, injured and survivors from the parish.