It is about ten miles (16 km) south-west from Bury St Edmunds, halfway to Haverhill, off the A143 road.

Wickhambrook is the largest village by area in the county of Suffolk with a population of 1170 in 2005.

In former times there was a Free Chapel in the grounds of Badmondisfield Hall; its date of closure is unrecorded.

There are three formal burial sites in the village: the original churchyard of All Saints', which was closed by an Order in Council in 1890 (except that in 1934 George V made an Order allowing the burial of Alexander McKechnie, Vicar of Wickhambrook);[2] a small number of burial plots in the grounds of the United Reformed Church; and finally the cemetery to be found on Cemetery Road which also hosts a small chapel and the village war memorial.

Wickhambrook (centre – OS grid TL7455) hosts a number of facilities.