[1] It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich in the East Suffolk District, and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.

[3] Both serve meals and contribute much to local social activity.

Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene,[4][5] where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried.

[6] It has fine stained glass windows, of which St Mary of Magdala was designed by William Morris.

[4] The population of Westerfield with Culpho was estimated at 486 in 2019[7] and measured at 442 in the 2011 Census.