Most of the housing, the church and rectory are situated in the former and grouped around the triangular green or the three roads leading off it.

Thrandeston sits on slightly higher ground away from the southern point of the river Waveney that forms the county boundary.

The village is about a mile away from both the A143 road from Bury St Edmunds to Great Yarmouth and the A140 from Norwich to Ipswich.

Thrandeston had at least 6 holdings listed in the Domesday Book of 1066, the main manor was held by Anselm from the Abbot of St Edmunds and included a church with 8 acres (32,000 m2) of land and woodland for four pigs.

Goswold Hall has links with the Grey family,[4] the most famous member of which was Lady Jane Grey Thrandeston has its origins in the arable community mainly in the growing of hemp, as the nearby town of Diss was a large linen market.