[3] During the sixteenth century, Caston was the residence of Edward Gilman, who was one of the earliest recorded ancestors of Abraham Lincoln.

Caston's parish church dates from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, stands at the junction between Stow Bedon and Attleborough Roads and has been Grade I listed since 1958.

[8] The church was heavily restored in 1850s and features several Medieval, stained-glass roundels which were re-set after damage during the Second World War.

The church also boasts a grand candelabra which originally came from Hampton Court Palace and came to Caston via Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

[9] Caston's war memorial is a wheel-cross made of Aberdeen granite on the Village Green which was unveiled in 1920.