The town is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line between Ipswich and Lowestoft.

Much of the church's official architectural guide, with accounts of its medieval remnants, can be read on the Town Council site.

[12] With a Wikipedia page, in birth order: Brother Eadulf has become Saxmundham's most famous international fictional character, through the best-selling Sister Fidelma mysteries by Peter Tremayne (a pseudonym of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis).

Brother Eadulf, as companion and assistant to Sister Fidelma, often plays a crucial part in resolving the mystery.

He is introduced as originally the hereditary gerefa (magistrate) of "Seaxmund's Ham in the land of the South Folk."

Tremayne chose Saxmundham as Eadulf's place of origin because of local connections, the nearness of the town to an ancient royal burial site of the East Angles, and the historic East Anglian connections with Irish Christian missionaries.