The Sign
The sign was presented by the Culford and West Stow Women's Institute in 1977 to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It is made from wrought iron with a painted main panel depicting the Anglo Saxon village here.

The Name and Population
It was known as Stowa in 1086 and Westowe in 1254. Stow means "Place of assembly or holy place", from Old English. The population was 174 at the 2011 census, which included Wordwell.

Other Points of Interest
The church is dedicated to St Mary.

West Stow is the site of an early Anglo-Saxon village, occupied from AD 420-650, over 400 years before the Norman Conquest. In 1976 the West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Trust was formally established to manage the site, at that stage there were three reconstructed houses within the village. The site at West Stow has shown evidence of human habitation throughout British prehistory. Indeed, the wider Lark Valley contains the greatest known concentration of prehistoric settlements in the region of East Anglia.