It lies in a farming valley with main crops of barley, wheat and sugar beet, in a belt of chalk with the small Docking River running through.

There is an archaeological evidence of people living there in ancient times—the remains of Roman villas, pottery, a gold torc from the Iron Age, and Neolithic flint tools found in fields and gardens.

Peddars Way, an ancient Roman road, runs through the top end of the village and leads directly onto the Norfolk Coast Path.

After Fring, the national trail passes through the hamlet of Littleport, a small row of higgledy-piggledy cottages that now forms part of the main village.

He was a founder member of NORMAC, the Norfolk machinery body that brought modern mechanisation to arable farming in the 20th century East Anglia.