[4] The village and maltings were formerly served by Ryburgh station on the Great Eastern Railway branch from Wymondham and East Dereham to Fakenham and Wells-next-the-Sea.

St Andrew's Great Ryburgh, is one of 124 surviving round-tower churches in Norfolk.

An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered in 2016 by a Museum of London Archaeology excavation that was largely funded by Historic England.

[5][6] The waterlogged conditions of the site led to the remarkable preservation of burials including 6 plank-lined graves and 81 hollowed tree-trunk coffins dating from the 7th-9th century AD.

The evidence is this may have been a community of early Christians, including a timber structure thought to be a church or chapel.