Nearby villages include Great Bealings, Playford, Culpho, Martlesham and Grundisburgh.

Its pub, the Admiral's Head, closed on 20 July 2012.

This was closed as part of the 1950s rail closure programme,[5] prior to the Beeching Axe.

The railway line running through the station remains active, as part of the Ipswich to Lowestoft line, and crosses the main street at an automatic level crossing.

The Grove, an old house and estate in the village, was the childhood home of Sidney Colvin, the curator, critic, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson.