It lies at the crossroads from Ousden and Lady's Green (west), Chevington (east), Barrow, Suffolk (north), and Wickhambrook (in the south).

[2] Prior to the Norman Conquest, the manor lands of Haragraua (Hares Grove) had been held by Aluiet, one of four freewomen of West Suffolk.

Some four fifths of the medieval churches of Suffolk were already in existence at the time of the Conquest, and it is probable that Hargrave was one of them, although the oldest surviving fabric of the building dates from the Norman period of architecture.

Following the Conquest, the manor became one of more than three hundred holdings of the abbey, held at the time of Domesday by William De Waterville and subsequently, by the monks, Ralph the Falconer of Barrow and Robert Payne.

At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, it passed to Sir Thomas Kitson, and in 1717 was sold to the Earl of Bristol to become part of the Ickworth Estate.