[3] In 1885 Kelly's Directory noted the existence of an 1859-60 built school, endowed with church lands and holding 100 pupils, agricultural production of wheat, oats, potatoes and beans, and the French Drove railway station.

[4] The French Drove and Gedney Hill railway station on the branch line between Postland and Murrow closed in 1964.

[11] The ecclesiastical parish of Gedney Hill is part of the Whaplode Drove Group of the Deanery of Elloe East.

[12] Further Grade II listed buildings are Gedney Hill Mill,[13][14] and the Red Lion public house.

[16] The 2010 Diocese report stated that the school was "good" in its distinctiveness and effectiveness, leadership and management, and at meeting the needs of learners, with strengths in spiritual development and collective worship.