[2] In the Domesday Book of 1086, Barnoldby le Beck was a large village with 9 smallholders, 26 freeman, 12 ploughlands and a meadow of 200 acres.

[3] Early land holders in the Middle Ages included the Abbot of Grimsby, John Yarborough and Geoffrey le Scrope.

[7] Following the English Civil War, Anthony Harewood, the Royalist rector of the church of St. Helen's was replaced by a Puritan minister at the direction of the Earl of Manchester.

[4] The appointment of the new minister divided the village's inhabitants and some became early Quakers following a visit by a missionary for George Fox.

Osmond & Sons, farmers based in Barnoldby le Beck, were well known for their prize-winning herd of Herefords Barnoldby Orange Miss, named for the village and bred here, was voted supreme champion Hereford Heifer at the Royal Smithfield Show in Earls Court, London and was presented to the Queen along with Ray Osmond on 7 December 1965.