[1] Around the village is evidence of Medieval settlement, defined by cropmarks and ridge and furrow earthworks indicating crofts and enclosures.

[2] In 1885 Kelly's noted that the parish was of 1,862 acres (7.54 km2) with chief agricultural production being of wheat, oats, barley and seeds, and an 1881 population of 165.

[3] The church was restored in 1859-60 and 1870-74 by George Gilbert Scott, who rebuilt the north arcade and added, according to Pevsner, a "glittering mosaic reredos... made, according to Canon Binnal, by a Catholic Italian who insisted on smoking his pipe while doing it".

Also noted was a chalice and paten cover dated 1569[5] Scott also repaired both aisles, and rebuilt a mortuary chapel and the whole roof.

Presented by Billy Bragg, it interviewed the surviving members of a group of Second World War conscientious objectors who formed themselves into farming communities and an amateur dramatic society.