The Sign
The sign was erected in 1977 to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee as shown by the crown on the top. The design was by Audrey Fitzjohn and made by Mr. E Jacobs of the forge in Kirton. The theme is nautical showing a ketch in the centre, surrounding a marine dinosaur, which looks like a Plesiosaurus. One of the exports were coprolites, which are fossilised dinosaur droppings. The waves at the bottom is the River Deben on which the village lies and the boats sailed.

The Name and Population
The population was 464 at the 2011 census. In 1086, the village was known as Minima Waldringafelda or small Waldringfield. The name means "The open land of Waldhere's people", from Old English.

Other Points of Interest
Coprolites were mined in the area during late Victorian times and were ground down and used as a fertilizer on the land.

At the end of the nineteenth century, a cement-making industry used mud from the river mixed with chalk brought in by barge from the Medway. Served by one hundred barges a month and employing twelve 'bottleneck' kilns, the industry survived until 1907. The kilns were demolished in 1912.

The church is dedicated to All Saints.