Groton is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, Suffolk, England, located around a mile north of the A1071 between Hadleigh and Sudbury.

[1] The parish church dedicated to Saint Bartholomew is flint faced and has some 15th-century features; it was heavily restored in the 19th century.

Also found in the parish are a tributary to the River Box and Pitches Mount, the remaining earthworks of a wooden castle.

[7] The lord of the manor was originally the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds but, at the Dissolution, it was granted to the Winthrops.

On a common called "The Croft" in the village is an old Mulberry tree said to have been planted by Adam Winthrop, the grandfather of John the elder.

The name is thought by some to come from the Pecche family, who held Groton for the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds in 1200.