Located around three miles north north-east of Stowmarket, in 2005 its population was 80.

[1] At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Old Newton with Dagworth.

It shares a parish council with neighbouring Old Newton with Dagworth.

For many years the village was linked with the family descended from Walter Tirel, the cousin of William Rufus.

Sir James Tyrrell who allegedly confessed to murdering the Princes in the Tower under Richard III and was executed by order of Henry VII in 1502 for treason.