Queen Elizabeth I granted Walsham le Willows to Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1559.

Because the village is documented unusually fully in surviving records of the time, the Cambridge historian John Hatcher chose to use it as the setting for his semi-fictionalised account of the effects of the mid-14th century plague epidemic in England, The Black Death: A Personal History (2008).

[2] Sacrifice Pole Dating from ancient time, a wooden beam has been stored in buildings around the village.

Each year, at the start of February, around the time of Imbolc the wood is moved to a new building.

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