The finding of Ipswich and Thetford-type pottery suggests that there was settlement in the Middle Saxon era.

It is located in a modern building in Alice Driver Road which was built in 1989 after spending 115 years at the Old School next to St Mary's Church.

The Old School building has now been converted into affordable housing, which was opened by John Gummer MP in July 1994.

The Burh in this case is an Iron Age fort with the remains of a rectangular Roman fort enclosure surrounding the church of St Botolph at the adjacent village of Burgh, which stands on an acclivity (hill) overlooking the valley in which Grundisburgh lies.

[3] Alternatively grund might simply mean land,[4] or the lower-lying ground, giving the sense of "Burgh-in-the-valley", i.e. "that part of (the settlement of) Burgh which is in the valley bottom".

[10] The earliest parts of St Mary's Church, which is a Grade I listed building, date from approximately 1300 but it was enlarged in the 15th century with the addition of a clerestory.

[11] Within the church itself is a fine Suffolk hammerbeam roof and a mural of St Christopher dating from the 14th century, which is the largest of its type in the county.