It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-west of the market town of Halesworth in the East Suffolk District.

[1] The village is centred around a road junction, with development extending in a linear fashion.

There is an additional cluster of housing at Aldous Corner as well as a number of scattered farms throughout the parish.

[1] The village was not mentioned directly in the Domesday Book,[3][4] but Rumburgh Priory was founded in the parish in about 1065.

A Benedictine priory, it was founded as a cell of St Benet's Abbey at Hulme in Norfolk.