The parish of Woodton lies in southeastern Norfolk not too far from its border with neighbouring Suffolk and roughly 5 miles northwest of the Suffolk market town of Bungay. Today's Woodton is quite a large and compact village which sits a quarter mile west of the B1332 road which links Bungay through to the city of Norwich. Whilst today Woodton sits amongst fields its name is suggestive that at one time it was surrounded by woodland and early maps confirm this to be the case nowadays largely felled. Like most Norfolk parishes Woodton earned its living from arable farming, by the time of this transcript early gazetteers estimated over 75% of the parish acreage as set to arable crops. Cereals, beet and oil seed predominate today's fields but then a standard 4-year rotation would have applied. Woodton is a village that has grown in modern times, early maps show The Street, north of the main crossroads, as the principal area of properties whilst today the village has expanded southwestwards with modern housing developments.

All Saints' church sits away from its village, over a half mile to the southwest, on the northern side of Church Road. The presence of a round tower is usually indicative of an early church in Norfolk but for Woodton it is the only really ancient piece. Pevsner dates the tower to the 12th century placing it within the Norman Romanesque period. The remainder of the church is from that classic Norfolk church-building era of the 14th century, the early medieval structure that undoubtedly was here was replaced with a simple nave & chancel combined in one, the style varies across the church with both Decorated style, shown by the chancel and southern aisle, being superseded by that of the Perpendicular, shown by the much-restored aisle roof. Restoration is, however, a theme for this church with several phases recorded in Pevsner from the very thorough work of the late 1870s through to more modern times in 1966. The churchyard is surrounded by the typical flint walling topped with brick through which wooden gates grant entry to a graveled pathway leading to the church which is set well back, the churchyard is open and relatively uncluttered leaving few problems for the photographer.