The waterfront is home to million-pound residential properties,[1] previously residences of merchants and businessmen who commuted in the 1800s to nearby Nottingham by rail from Fiskerton Station.

[7] The 1086 Domesday entry for Fiskerton mentioned arable land enough for seven ploughs, two mills, a fishery, a ferry and 42 acres of meadow, pasture and woodland.

By 1842 there were wharfs, coal yards and warehouses along the river front together with a large malthouse owned by Newark brewer, James Hole.

[2] An important development was the opening of the Nottingham to Lincoln railway in August 1846 with the station close to the village centre.

The village of Fiskerton is also known in Evangelical Christian circles as the homeplace of Henri and Connie Staples,[14] who lived there from 1964 to 2000[15] and regularly held 'revival meetings' in the Methodist Chapel.

[2] The village may have been home to a small monastic cell of Augustinian Canons, dependent on the nearby Thurgarton Priory.