A Romano-British or Anglo-Saxon cemetery was found in 1934 by Basil Brown, who later rose to fame for his discoveries at Sutton Hoo.

The Royal Oak was part of Whitbread's pub estate but closed in 1968 and was sold on as a private dwelling, which it remains today directly opposite the church of St. Margaret's.

The Black Swan closed in the 1920s but the building remains as a private dwelling on the south side of the A143 near its junction with Calkewood Lane.

A stream which rises to the south of the village is called The Grundle and is one of the tributaries of the Little Ouse river which eventually joins the Great Ouse and discharges into The Wash. Atop a hill south-west of the village centre, Grade II* listed Wattisfield Hall is an early 17th century timber-framed manor house, most recognizable by its towering, octagonal, Tudor-brick chimneys––twelve in all, grouped into four large stacks.

[5] While running their picture cleaning and repair business, Keating secretly continued painting large numbers of Sexton Blakes––his rhyming slang for fakes[6]––in the styles of Constable, Gainsborough, Rembrandt and many others, including the Samuel Palmer fakes that led to Kelly and him facing charges for art fraud at the Old Bailey in 1979.