The parish is long and narrow, stretching some three miles from its south-western limit, not far from Flowton Church, to its north-eastern extremity, beside the River Gipping near Claydon.

The Grade I listed[3] church of St Mary The Virgin is set upon a grassy chalky bank beside a narrow lane, a little above the houses of its village and beside the former Rectory - a house with Dutch gables which stands at a considerably lower level.

[6] The village has its own version of an old carol, surviving the days when the churches standardised onto a common hymnal.

He was quoting Revd John Jackson of Little Blakenham, who had taken down the words from an aged parishioner.

The only thing Pete could find related to it was an Irish hymnal, which provided some similar verses and a tune, under the title "The Sinner's Redemption".