[4][5] Records from 1823 indicate that there were only three houses and a population of 31, increasing to 76 by 1842; archaeological evidence showed that the village was previously much larger.

[2] By 1923, there was no village per-se here, "the church having in close proximity only the rectory, a modern building, and Bossall Hall".

[9] From the early 1300s until the 1420s the manor was held by Paulinus de Bossall and his descendants, after which time it was owned by the Redman or Redmayne family from whom it was later passed by marriage to the Thwaites.

Although Sir Robert Belt was dispossessed following the English Civil War, the family continued to hold the manor until the late 1880s.

The manor is Grade II listed,[12] and the earth-covered banks beside the moat are designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.