In 1870, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stansfield as In Old English, Stansfield would have been interpreted as ‘Stan’s open land’, referring to someone's unencumbered and arable land in which they owned at the time.

[3] Earliest History of Stansfield dates back to 1066 in the Domesday Book, where the value to the Lord was £3.50.

[4] In 1831, the main source of industry in Stansfield was Agricultural labourers, followed by Retail & Handicrafts.

Labourers and servants occupied 81 jobs in 1831, 21 as middling sorts and 10 as employers and professionals.

[6] Between 1837 and 1889 Stansfield was part of the Risbridge Registration District and the Suffolk County.

[9] This suggests that between 1841 and 1961 people began to move from rural communities and parishes to bigger cities such as London where there was work emerging in the factories and the industrial sector.

Over the next 30 years houses began to decrease as people would have moved to cities such as London in search of factory work.

The church itself is flint-fronted and is situated at the north end of the village on Plough Hill.

On the memorial it states; "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" St JohnIn total, ten men lost their lives, eight in the First World War and two in the Second World War.

[17] The Parish features its own council, which discusses community concerns and events taking place.

[20] Stansfield is part of Suffolk ACRE's Community Buying Enterprise which helps residents to save money on heating oil within households.