The Sign
The sign was unveiled in 1992, from the efforts of local people. The sign is split into four quadrants and include a swan on the local stream which is the name of the local pub, the church of St Mary, Westerfield Hall and finally a steam train, which would have travelled on the local railway to Ipswich, Felixstowe and Lowestoft; a station still services the village.

The Name and Population
The population was 442 at the 2011 census. It was called Westrefelda in the Domesday Book and Westerfeld in 1206. The name means "The more westerly open land", from Old English.

Other Points of Interest
Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried. It has fine stained glass windows, of which St Mary of Magdala was designed by William Morris.