Great Livermere is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located around four miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds.

It has a village where meetings and other functions are often held. Great Livermere has a small population of 226, according to the 2011 census; there are 103 males and 123 females recorded. The population of the village has fluctuated rapidly; from 1850 to 1950 it decreased rapidly, however since the 1950s the population has steadily risen.

The village’s name means Reed Lake being derived from the Old English words lēfer meaning rush, or reed and mere meaning pond, pool, or lake. The village is first recorded before the Norman conquest in the S1051 charter of Edward the Confessor granting lands to Ely Abbey. The Domesday Book records the population of Great Livermere in 1086 to be 52 households.

The grade I listed church of St Peter’s contains wall paintings, a three-decker pulpit, and one of the finest organs in the area along with the grave of William Sakings, Falconer to Kings Charles I, Charles II, and James II.

The antiquarian and ghost story writer M R James was the son of the Rector of Great Livermere and from the age of three (1865) until 1909 James's home, if not always his residence, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, inspiring the location for A Vignette, his very last supernatural story.

Livermere Hall, a country house at Little Livermere which was demolished in 1923, is thought to have inspired the fictitious Castringham Hall in his ghost story "The Ash-tree", published in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904, and the surname of the ghostly protagonist, "Mothersole" appears on gravestones in the churchyard.[9] The old rectory itself is now known as "Livermere Hall".