Stain was once an independent parish but was combined with Withern when the old church of St John the Baptist was destroyed some centuries ago.

The now redundant church of St Margaret's is the burial place of Auguste Pahud and Annie Pahud, whose love story is the raison d'être for the local Hubbard's Hills park.

A Public Elementary School was built in the hamlet of Stain in 1850 and enlarged in 1858 to hold 100 children.

The Grant family lived in the house at one time, their daughter being Annie Pahud.

This ward stretches south east to Saleby with a total population taken at the Census of 2011 of 1,826.