The River Stour is artificial at this point as it has been widened and deepened and its banks raised to enable water to be stored to provide power for the water mill seen at the extreme right. Like many other mills this mill is no longer used for milling and is now a private house. The water level is still kept high for ornamental reasons. The plan of the village on either side of the road joining Long Melford with Clare further up the valley can be seen and the line of the disused railway from Sudbury running at the bottom of the gardens of the houses between the road and the river can also be made out.

Note the contrast between the Tudor and Georgian housing that flanks either side of the road with individual plots of land that are long and thin and that are at right angles to the road with the modern housing on the left (west) of the picture. The village green is a feature of this settlement as are the Alms houses which are on the southern side of the church bordering the green.