The village is spread along a 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) stretch of the A145 road between Beccles and Blythburgh to the south.

[1] The village itself is joined with Willingham St Mary and 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) west of Sotterley.

[3] Other than Willingham and Sotterley, the parish also borders Brampton with Stoven, Redisham and Weston.

It was built between 1806 and 1808 for Thomas Charles Scott, replacing a mid 16th-century manor house.

Then Prime Minister Gordon Brown took his family holiday at Shadingfield Hall in the summer of 2008.