Birchwood and Doddington Park are built on the site of the Second World War airfield RAF Skellingthorpe which had hosted No.

This school has a small museum dedicated to finds found on the site when it was excavated, including the wing of a Spitfire.

[9] Birchwood is currently seeing a major northern expansion over the north of Skellingthorpe Road which will form part of the Lincoln Western Growth Corridor scheme[10] and will see up to 3,200 new homes and a new district being built on green fields to the north of Birchwood.

Works are currently underway but have been met with much disruption, opposition and issues relating to traffic congestion.

The religious makeup of the district was 50% Irreligious, followed by 48% Christian, 1% Muslim, 1% Other religion and less than 1% Hindu.

The former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway passed by the district with a station at Skellingthorpe but this closed in the 1950s.