[2] Gillingham Hall is located within the parish and was built in the early-Sixteenth Century as a residence for Sir Nicholas Bacon.

On the night of the 6th and 7 November 1943, a Dornier 17 light bomber crashed in the village after being shot down by anti-aircraft fire whilst on a bombing raid of Norwich.

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

Gillingham's parish church was largely rebuilt in the mid-Nineteenth Century by Thomas Penrice and is dedicated to Saint Mary.

The majority of local children attend St. Michael's Church of England Primary Academy, which was rated as 'Good' by Ofsted in 2018.