The main landholder is named as Hugh de Montfort and the survey also states that there are two mills, a fishery, and two beehives.

The military ranges were needed to prepare Allied infantry for Operation Overlord (the Battle of Normandy in 1944).

[6] This was the subject of a book Farming, on a Battle Ground written by Lucille Reeve, one of those who refused to leave, writing under the pseudonym A Norfolk Woman.

Since the evacuation, the village and its parish remain within the Ministry of Defence's Thetford infantry training area.

The eaves of the church have curious carved faces on the east elevation: a grinning cat to the south, a wild man to the north.