[7] Pitt Rivers argues that if you stand on the dyke at Argam, "the whole of the wide extent of country which presents itself to the eye from this point, the whole of the ground appears as if it had been scooped out by nature for the defence of an army facing inland and westwards...."[8] The parish was listed as having a church (dedicated to St John the Baptist), which was still extant in 1318 according to an ecclesiastical tax record of the Diocese of York.

[9] In 1115, Walter de Gant, granted some land in the parish, and all the chapels of Hunmanby, to the order at Bardney Abbey.

[14] The rights of the clergy in the parish were known to have been severely curtailed by 1632, by which time, no buildings existed in Argam village.

The Archbishop of York left the decision of whether to hold religious services in the parish or not, to the incumbent vicar.

[16] The parish and village have been recorded as being Ergone, Ergum, Erghum, Herghum, Ereghom, and Arholme.

[19] The village was de-populated by end of the Middle Ages, possibly for sheep-farming, which was the main use of the area listed in the Domesday Book.