[citation needed] Horsefair Lane was for many years the home and factory of clothing manufacturers, Dewhirst's.

[citation needed] The A166 previously ran through the village until the construction of the town bypass (part of the A614), about 1982.

[citation needed] Through traffic runs to the nearby Kelleythorpe Industrial Estate about half a mile south.

However, no evidence of this was found when the nave and chancel were rebuilt and the floor excavated in 1807 (the 14th-century tower remained untouched).

[6] The village previously contained two public houses: The Rose & Crown and The Downe Arms, (named after the lady of the manor).

New housing has been built since the 1990s, particularly Londsborough Court, which was a milk tanker storage yard and before that an abattoir which adjoined Brendan Green, previously the site of a tannery.