St. Edmund's Chapel was the church of a Benedictine nunnery at Lyng Eastaugh, three quarters of a mile to the south-east of the village.

[citation needed] Externally, the church appears to be 17th to 18th century, due to a large renovation that took place around that time.

[9] Lyng also has a motocross track located to the south of the village called Cadders Hill, run by the Norwich Vikings motorcycle club.

[11] The village developed a long-standing family economy of papermaking from the mill, in which wives and daughters prepared discarded linen for pulping.

[12][11] The mill was rebuilt and used until 1865, but still remains next to a three-arched bridge over the Wensum river, and both are Grade II listed buildings.

[14] A World War II type 22 concrete pillbox built in 1940 still exists to the south of Lyng Easthaugh, possibly used alongside gun emplacements or a searchlight battery.

On 26 July 1999, Greenpeace activists, led by Lord Melchett, destroyed 6 acres of genetically modified maize at Walnut Tree Farm in Lyng as a form of civil disobedience.