The old village dates back to the Angles, Germanic invaders who occupied much of Britain after the Romans left in 400 AD.

The Danes and Vikings arrived in Lincolnshire in 900 AD, hence places with names ending in –by, thorpe and ham (which mean ‘village’).

[citation needed] The Domesday Book (1086) records that North Hykeham had 15 households and a 52-acre meadow.

All Saints Church, consisting of nave, south aisle, chancel and tower, was erected on a new site in 1868, at a cost of £1200.

It neighbours South Hykeham, Bracebridge Heath, Thorpe-on-the-Hill and the Lincoln suburb of Birchwood.

An Asda superstore opened in 1969, and was subsequently rebuilt on land adjacent to the old store (previously the site of Hykeham Manor, partial ruins of which existed into the early 1980s) which was demolished, and is part of the current larger, 24 hour store car park in March 1998.

There are engineering companies on Freeman Road, near the railway station, including Siemens (formerly Alstom Power).

A foundry, Lincoln Castings, on Station Road closed in February 2007; the last owners were the Meade Corporation of Malmesbury.

The Hykeham ecclesiastical parish lies south of the town and includes St Hugh's Anglican church, built in the 1960s, on Harewood Crescent and the Victorian gothic-style All Saints Anglican church on the corner of Moor Lane.

Fen Lane Park has football pitches, a children's play area and a purpose-built skatepark.

There are also several primary schools including All Saints CE, Fosse Way Academy, Manor Farm Academy and Ling Moor Primary Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire.