[5] The village is first recorded before the Norman conquest in the S1051 charter of Edward the Confessor granting lands to Ely Abbey.

of Bury St Edmunds, 1549 acres, population 275; Post Office, called Livermere.The antiquarian and ghost story writer M. R. James was the son of the Rector of Great Livermere and from the age of three (1865) until 1909 James's home, if not always his residence, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, inspiring the location for A Vignette, his last supernatural story.

According to other figures from Neighborhood statistics, within Great Livermere marital and civil partnership status demonstrate 49 people are single, 95 are married, 6 separated, 23 widowed and 17 divorced.

The agricultural sector is clearly marked on the graph seen below as the most predominant livelihood according to census data from the Vision of Britain report.

A clear divide is seen in patriarchal norms within Great Livermere and the roles carried out between sexes as demonstrated from the 1881 graph below.

[19] In recent years as seen from the Office for National statistics census reports from 2011 show the majority of industry is manufacturing alongside health and social care activities.

[25] This shows the majority of Great Livermere village are small bungalow housing perhaps catering for a more elderly population.

[26] Census data from 2011 shows 82 people accounting for car and van use for travelling to work, in comparison to only 4 using a coach or bus.

This clearly demonstrates poor public transport in the countryside area of Great Livermere as the majority work from home rather than commute outside of the town, leaving the remaining on foot and on bicycles.