It is located 11 miles (18 km) west of Norwich next to the market town of Wymondham, neighbouring the villages of Deopham, Hackford and Kimberley.

[citation needed] The village also has one public house called the Cherry Tree where the full range of Buffy's ales, made in Tivetshall St. Mary, can be tasted.

Hospital Road is the site of a large neo-Georgian building, now private homes.

[7] The former St James Church on Low Street served the community of Crownthorpe.

[9] The site of a Romano-Celtic temple near Wicklewood was discovered from cropmarks in 1959, and was excavated in that year.