In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of Peter de Valognes and Ranulf, brother of Ilger.

[2] During the Second World War, defensive emplacements including a mortar battery and searchlight were built in Edgefield in preparation for a potential German invasion of Great Britain.

[6] The church also possesses good examples of twentieth-century stained glass by John Hayward and a font made from Purbeck Marble and dating from the thirteenth century.

In the mid-Nineteenth Century, Piggs Inn (as it was then called) was involved in the smuggling of spirits led by landlord James Dyball.

The village's national constituency is North Norfolk, which has been represented by the Liberal Democrat Steff Aquarone MP since 2024.

Edgefield's war memorial originally stood as an obelisk on the village green but by the early twenty-first century this had fallen into disrepair.