Great Wratting is a village and civil parish in England, about four miles from Haverhill, Suffolk, in the valley of the River Stour.
The river here is heavily populated by crayfish, a non native species long since escaped from farms near the mouth of the Stour.
The old vicarage, the old school and the old post office are now - long since - family homes, as are the old forge (which has also been the old Bell pub).
The flint walled church is Saxon in origin, its interior Victorian but with a wooden rood screen which was possibly put in by W H Smith of book-selling fame (once a resident of Little Thurlow Hall).
She was so determined to make the men who volunteered welcome that she reputedly drove to London in the Blitz in order to purchase pasta for them (it not then being obtainable elsewhere).