[1] The village is spread along the Halesworth road with the Lowestoft to Ipswich railway cutting through the extreme eastern edge of the parish.

[1] Wissett manor was held by Ralph the Staller, Baron of Gael in Brittany before the Norman Conquest.

Ralph was created Earl of East Anglia in 1067, but his son lost the title and the manor passed to Count Alan of Brittany and Richmond in 1075.

[7] Bell's sister, Virginia Woolf, wrote after visiting them that: "Wissett seems to lull asleep all ambition.

[2][14][15][16] The carved wooden statue of St Andrew was crafted from driftwood in 2006 by Peter Eugene Ball.

[14][16] The parish is now one of fourteen which together form the Blyth Valley Team Ministry in the Diocese of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

Early in 2011 two hoards of Bronze Age axe heads and spears, together with a single rapier blade, were discovered in Wissett by two metal detectorists.

The second hoard was excavated fully by the County Archaeological Team, and expert examination of the objects has shown them to be over 3,000 years old, dating to the Middle Bronze Age.