[1] It is situated 3 miles (5 km) south from the town of Brigg.

Cadney's Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to All Saints.

[3] The parish was created on 1 April 1936 through the abolition of Cadney cum Howsham and Newstead.

Within the parish, at Newstead on the River Ancholme, lies the site of the Gilbertine Holy Trinity Priory, founded by Henry II in 1171, and endowed with the island of Ancholme, and lands around Cadney and Hardwick.

[5] The clergyman and ecologist Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock made his living here from 1891 onwards, the very rural and sparsely populated parish proving useful in his development as an ecologist.