[a][2] Uggeshall is located just to the north-east, Byford to the south and Blythburgh to the south-east.

Latitude Festival takes place a couple of miles east.

HUNJRET OF BlIDINGA [BlYTHING] (At) SuDRETUNA [Sotherton] Rada a freeman held under Harold 2 carucates of land as a manor.

To this manor Humphrey de Sancto Bertino added I freeman with 12 acres, over whom his predecessor had commendation T.R.E.

[5] In 1868 The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland wrote, "SOTHERTON, a parish in the hundred of Blything, county Suffolk, 4 miles N.E.

The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Blyth, and is wholly agricultural.

[6] In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: "SOTHERTON, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; 4 miles ENE of Halesworth r. station.

The living is a rectory, annexed to Uggeshall; joint gross value, £588 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Stradbroke.

"[8] The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew and is located on a small dead-end lane signposted off the A145.

[12] In the 1970s Jeremy and James Lascelles, sons of the 7th Earl of Harewood, had a commune in Church Farm, with their band Global Village Trucking Company, roadies, etc.

[13] In 1973 the BBC made a documentary film about the rock group living in a Suffolk commune with their families, friends, roadies and managers.

Sotherton Hall is a grade II listed Tudor timber framed farmhouse or Hall house with a shaped brick gable end, set by a listed 17th/18th century timber framed and weatherboarded barn,[15] in a small park towards the North of the parish[16] mentioned by Nikolaus Pevsner.