The village straggles along the lonely lanes between Redgrave and Bardwell . It is an intensely rural place, with none of the commuter feel of villages closer to Ipswich and Bury.
Fields intersperse houses, hedges strike up gentle slopes.
On this day in late August, a freshly stubbled hay field spread beneath St Mary, lending it a grandeur as fierce as any church in the county possesses. When Cautley's editors came here, they found the tower damaged by a lightning strike, but one would never know this today. It has been repaired in the conventionally restrained 20th century manner, like Orford . I ventured out into the field to take a photo. Fortress Market Weston from the barley field.