[2] Balderton is one of the largest villages in Nottinghamshire,[3] although it may be more properly considered a suburb of Newark-on-Trent, which is almost adjacent to the north-west.

Large deposits of gravel and sand were excavated in New Balderton, and the resulting pits were turned into a lakeside park.

The name Balderton has obscure roots but may have been derived from Balder or Baldur – the Norse god of innocence, beauty, joy, purity, and peace and Odin's second son eventually killed by his blind brother in an accident involving Loki the god of mischief and fire.

Balderton's Lords, the Busseys, lived in the area in William the Conqueror's era and held it until the reign of Elizabeth I.

In the 1840s, when its population was a little over 1,000, large parts of the village were owned principally by the Duke of Newcastle, who was lord of the manor.

During the final siege of Newark in the English Civil War, Colonel Rossiter, a parliamentary commander, was camped at Balderton.

A windmill was recorded on the Old Series Ordnance Survey map on a site close to Spring Lane (grid reference SK832506).

Land owned by the Balderton Parish Council includes the cemetery and Garden of Remembrance on Belvoir Road and Mount Road, the Coronation Street playing field, Balderton Lake, and the Parish Council Hall on Pinfold Lane.

The more imposing north entrance is topped by a niche containing a figure, possibly St Giles, although this was probably added as late as the 19th century.

A second primary school, Chuter Ede, opened in 1964 in Main Street, and in its present buildings in Wolfit Avenue in 1967.

[3] A number of trees around the lake were planted early in the 1990s as part of a project undertaken by John Hunt Infant School.

A large private house on the southern outskirts of the village built 1840 for Thomas Spragging Godfrey.

Godfrey became sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1853 (Times 9 February 1853, page 3) and died at Balderton Hall on 7 September 1877.

It was bought in 1930 by Nottinghamshire county council for conversion to a mental hospital but work on this stopped during World War II.

During World War II it was used primarily as a troop carrier transport airfield and after for munitions storage before it finally closed.

RAF Balderton airfield was also used by Sir Frank Whittle and his flight trials unit during development of the jet engine in 1943-1944.