The Moorhouse area changed hands several times throughout the years, William The Conqueror granting the manor first to Geoffrey Alselin in 1066.

[4] Sir William Courten was a later owner who commissioned a survey of the Laxton and Moorhouse lands, with cartographer Mark Pierce drafting for him a well-regarded 1635 map demonstrating extensive use of the open field system.

[16] The Moorhouse Chantry Chapel is a key feature in the area, just north east of the road junction.

It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, and was erected in 1861 using a Gothic style, by John Evelyn Denison of nearby Ossington Hall who was a local landowner.

[17] It is believed that there was an original chapel on the same site built for the private use of Robert de Lexington early in the thirteenth century, with the bell being reused in the replacement church.