 The village straddles the A149 road that links King’s Lynn to Great Yarmouth.The community is bordered to the north and east by the River Ant and dykes and to the south and west by tracks and hedgerows.The name of the village means 'bank or hillock of the Smale', the Smale being the old name for the River Ant, the second element deriving from Old English "beorg" which means hillock.