[2] For the purposes of local government, Walpole falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

[citation needed] The partially filled in moat of a former manorial site indicates mediaeval occupation.

A brick from an archaeological dig was found to have been used as the board of a game, nine men's morris.

[4] In 1339 the Bishop of Ely brought criminal proceedings, complaining of the breaking up by local merchants of the market which he and his predecessors had held at Walpole "time out of mind".

St Peter's Church was used as the parish church of the fictional village of Fenchurch St Paul in the 1970s production of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel The Nine Tailors, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey.