When the melt water lake finally disappeared the Luddington area became dry, surrounded by wetlands, on a branch of the River Don.

[citation needed] At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Luddington was the most northerly of the parishes on the Isle of Axholme, and was a river island.

The Northern Isle of Axholme has two other deserted Medieval settlements, Haldenby and Waterton, both close to Luddington.

Climate change during the Little Ice Age saw the advance of marshlands, the dying of woodlands (which became bog oak) and the reduction of pasture.

[citation needed] Two public houses that existed in Luddington closed: The Friendship in 1974, and The Blue Bell in 1994.

[citation needed] Luddington is situated at the northern edge of North Lincolnshire, on low-lying land which abuts the River Trent to the east.

Just to the north of the village, a track leaves the road, providing a route to Haldenby Grange, near to which there was a railway station until 1965.

Between them, the border is with Twin Rivers civil parish, containing the villages of Adlingfleet, Ousefleet and Whitgift, which are in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

[7] The parish church is a Grade II listed structure, built in 1855 in Gothic Revival style.

The chancel has two bays, to which is attached a vestry, and at the western end there is a three-stage tower with an octagonal broach spire.

The building replaced an earlier medieval church, details of which are provided by an illustration made by C Nattes in 1794, and now in the collection of Lincoln City Library.

[3] Haldenby Grange is a Grade II listed farmhouse, dating from the middle to late eighteenth century.

It was once close to the banks of the River Don, and formed part of the deserted medieval village of Haldenby.