[2][3] The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book at which time it comprised seven households and formed part of the holding of William de Beaufeu, Bishop of Thetford.

[4] In 1844, White's Directories lists Thomas Corbett (Lincolnshire MP) as lord of the manor[5] The village church is dedicated to St Mary.

[6] It is medieval in origin and includes a 15th-century tower and a series of bench ends from the same century which are one of the finest collections in East Anglia.

[7] Newton Wilby Hall, a Grade II listed building, is a 16th-century farmhouse with an intact medieval moat.

Officially opened on Saturday 28 May 1955, it was one of the first village halls in Suffolk to be made by voluntary labour.