 A church is recorded at Corpusty, rather than Saxthorpe, and St Andrew’s Church in Saxthorpe contains Late Saxon work.An Early Saxon ring, brooch and part of an Early Saxon coptic bowl, as well as Middle Saxon coins and Late Saxon pottery have been found in the parish, and the present villages have probably developed from the Saxon settlement on the banks of the River Bure.During the medieval period Aylmer de Valance, the Earl of Pembroke, built a large moated manor house in the parish, known locally as ‘Saxthorpe Castle’.