The parish church of St Swithin is 12th century, which was restored, with a new chancel, in 1878–9.

To the south is the deserted medieval village of Grimston, which now forms part of the Manor of Wellow.

To the north east is Jordan Castle, a Norman ringwork consisting of a circular earthwork surrounded by a bank and ditch.

Jordan Foliot, Baron de Foliot, Lord of Jordon Castle was granted the power to embattle his dwelling at Jordon Castle, he was the Lord of the Manor of Grimston, and Wellow, and of Besthorpe, with the Soc of Grimston, and its members, in Kirton Schidrintune, in Willoughby, and Walesby, in Besthorpe, and Carleton, and in Franesfeild.

An historian has claimed Robin Hood was a pseudonym by which the ancient Lords of Wellow were once known.