The Sign
The sign was erected to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. The sign depicts: a crown, possibly of St Edmund, which actually moves on the sign, an elm tree related to the village name, the church of St Peter and the ploughed field at the bottom representing agriculture. The sign was made by David Oxborrow.

The Name and Population
The population was 788 at the 2011 census. The village was called Ylmesaeton from 962-91 and Elmeseta in 1086. The name probably means "The settlement of the dwellers among the elm trees from Old English.

Other Points of Interest
Opposite the church is the Tithe Memorial which commemorates Elmsett’s stand against Queen Anne’s Bounty, an ancient tithe which by the 1930’s had become an unjust tax.

(Wikipedia) In 1932, the village made national news when Charles Westren, a farmer at Elmsett Hall, refused to pay his tithe to the church. As a result, goods were seized from the hall. This is remembered by the Tithe memorial opposite the church, on which it is inscribed (the inscription contains the spelling mistake "commerate" instead of "commemorate"):

1934. To commerate the Tithe seizure at Elmsett Hall of furniture including baby's bed and blankets, herd of dairy cows, eight corn stacks and seed stacks valued at £1200 for tithe valued at £385.

The parish has a small grass airfield to the west edge.