[5] The St Denys Church was built in the 13th Century on a site believed to have been in use since the time of William the Conqueror.

During the trial, testimonies against Joan Vaughn and Agnes Brown alleged that they were seen with other ‘witches’, Katherine Gardiner and Joan Lucus, visiting Mother Rhodes, who was found dying according to The Witches of Northamptonshire: "It was credthly reported that some fort-night before their apprehension, this Agnes Browne, one Ratherine Gardiner, and one Ioane Lucas, all birds of a winge, and all abyding in the Towne of Gilsborough did ride one night to a place (not aboue a mile off) called Rauenstrop, all vpon a Sowes backe, to sée one mother Rhoades, an old Witch that dwelt there, but before they came to her house the old Witch died, and in her last cast cried out, that there were three of her old friends coming to sée her, but they came too late, Howbeit shee would méete with them in another place within a month after.

A village of the same name is present in the 2020 video game Assassin's Creed Valhalla which features prominently as the protagonist's home, although the fictionalised Ravensthorpe is in a different location of Ledecestrescire, meaning Leicestershire.

[12][13] Lord of the Manor Charlie Reeve declared a week-long commemorative event for the release of an in-game Yuletide festival, coinciding with local pub The Chequers releasing a special takeaway menu.

[14] By comparing in-game maps with actual geography, the real-life village is in the immediate proximity of the fictional one.