For Westminster elections, it is in the constituency of North Norfolk, currently represented by Duncan Baker, a Conservative.

[4] Saxlingham appears in the 1086 Domesday Book,[5] under the names Saxelinghham and Saxelingaham.

The main tenant of the manor at the time was Bishop William Peter de Valognes.

[7] It was extensively restored by a benefactor, Sir Alfred Jodrell, in 1896, giving it an appearance of more recent construction.

In a niche is an alabaster figure of an Elizabethan lady kneeling on a tasselled cushion, commemorating the daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon.