The main Henley Road runs through the centre of the village and provides good transport links with Ipswich.

There was a church in Henley at the time William the Conqueror had the Domesday Survey prepared, there were also three manors within the village.

The vestry on the north side of the church was added in 1838 and the outer wall on the south of the churchyard is dated 1900.

On the nave walls and ceiling old style lime wash was used rather than emulsion paint, which was removed in October 2008.

The roof required extensive repairs in 1959 and the nave was replaced and retiled in 2005, when the opportunity was taken to upgrade the lighting throughout the church.

From the inscription above the west door asking for prayers for Thomas Sekeford (Seckford) and his second wife Margarete, it can be assumed that it was built at his expense.

The flag pole came from HMS Ganges in 1902, a naval training establishment in Shotley for a number of years.

The glass screen was inserted in 1973 sealing off the ringing chamber but leaving the bell ringers visible.

Between the ceiling of the nave and the roof is an opening entered from the tower where it is suggested that the villagers kept smuggled goods.

She was a tenant of Henley Hall and gave generously to the parish including the vestry, built in 1838 as a day school, plus a legacy for a church education.

The 30 chairs in the vestry were given in 1993 as a memorial to Albert Hill, Sidney Quinton and Jack Ward, all well loved inhabitants of the village.

Anne, the wife of an earlier John de Vere, has a tombstone in the chancel recording their 16 years of marriage and the surviving children; four sons (William, John, Francis and Edward) plus five daughters (Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Frances and Susan).

The Good News Bibles in the pews and on the lectern with the embroidered bookmark were given in memory of parishioners and their families.

Before the renovations of 1895 the floor of the chancel was some six inches higher having been raised fifty years earlier, making a steep step up.

During the renovations the floor was lowered to its original position and a dark wooden reredos across the east end of the church removed.

The free-standing lectern was acquired by the church in the early 1950s and holds a copy of the limited number of 'Vinegar Bibles', so called because of a printing error in Luke 20 where there is a reference to the parable of the vinegar (for vineyard).

The Decorated style east window is relatively simple and was inserted "in Mr. Beevor's time (1840) in place of a wooden one of similar shape".

The church has two sets of plate, one in use normally which includes a ciborium given by the Mothers Union in 2000 and the other, dated 1728, engraved with scenes from the passion.

Coinciding with the date on the earlier plate it is recorded that £1 2s 6d was spent on the purchase of a new "carpet" (cover) for the Communion Table.

On the south (right hand) side of the church is the 13th-century piscina, in effect a sink where the communion vessels were washed.

Beevor's time the Meadows-Theobald family appear to have let Henley Hall to various tenants and after Miss Ibbetson's death Charles Steward occupied it.

He paid for the renovation of the seating, including the carving of the poppy-head bench end replacements in the same style as the original where necessary.

The outer wall is thicker here to accommodate the steps which would have given access to the beam across the church, which would have held candles and a figure of Christ on the cross.

This would have been removed at the time of the Reformation but there is a story that Henley church clung to Rome for a while and that a window on the stairs was used as a lookout to obtain warning of the approach of the image-breakers.

The hatchment above the door nearer to the gallery was for Mary, mother of John referred to on the tablet, and a tombstone near the altar lists members of the family in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Little is known of this lady except that she is understood to have sent parcels to Margaret Catchpole, the Ipswich woman transported to Australia for taking a horse without permission.

He was a keen historian and either took or arranged for a number of local photographs of which a selection are currently on display in the Community Centre.

The main hall has recently hosted many dramatic companies to put on shows for the local people.

There is also a farm shop called the 'Egg Shed' on the corner of Mill Lane and Henley Road located opposite the Fiveways Garage.

This is home to the Happy Hens of Henley Free range eggs and also sells sausages and other seasonal goods.