The Sign
The main village sign located on the village green depicts a Roman soldier standing in the middle of the Homersfield bridge. The bridge is said to be the oldest concrete bridge in Britain.

The newer sign located at the entrance to the village was erected in 2000 to commemorate the Millennium and made by Mark Goldsworthy from a cedar tree! At the top of the sculpture is a man, possibly from Neolithic times in a small boat and below him, water with different species of fish swimming in it. Near the base are the words ‘I dreamed of a beautiful woman who carried me away’ and below those words the name of the village is carved in capitals. The sculpture has been signed by the artist. The beautiful woman referred to is the River Waveney which flows past the village and forms the border between the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk.

The Name and Population
The parish had a population of 158 at the 2011 census. The name means "Hunbeorht's open land' or 'open land by the River Humber", from Old English. Humber could have been an old name of the Waveney. It was called Humbresfelda in the Domesday Book

Other Points of Interest

The Homersfield bridge was designed by architect Henry Eyton and constructed in 1869 by Messrs W & T Phillips of London for Sir Shafto Adair, Bt of the Flixton Estate. It has a single 50 foot (15 metres) span consisting of a wrought iron frame encased in concrete and a cast iron balustrades decorated with Adair monograms. The pioneering composite construction of the bridge makes it an early example of a reinforced concrete structure. In the 1990s the bridge was restored by Norfolk Historic Building Trust and Suffolk Preservation Society after it had been compulsorily purchased by Norfolk County Council. Road traffic was diverted over a new bridge in 1970, and the old route over Homersfield Bridge is now a foot and cycle path.

The church is dedicated to St Mary.

The official name of the civil parish is St Mary, South Elmham otherwise Homersfield.