Located around four miles north-west of Bury St Edmunds on the A1101, in 2005 it had a population of 270.

[1] The parish contains the Lackford Lakes nature reserve and SSSI, created from reclaimed gravel pits.

These are believed to be the most easterly of a series of early Anglo-Saxon defensive earthworks built across the Icknield Way.

The Hall is believed by local historians to have been a hunting and fishing lodge.

The medieval St Lawrence's church is a grade II* listed building.