In Coates' view it is "tempting to regard it as a feature made when the 'new farm' of [Wold] Newton was inserted into an essentially Danish landscape".

Dr. Oliver, Vicar of Scopwick, Lincoln, who reported at a meeting of The Archaeological Institute the discovery of a:large tumulus, spreading over about three acres, and composed entirely of gravel....

Upon this tumulus was ... a long barrow ... in which more than twenty urns, of various forms, had been deposited, arranged in a line, the whole length of the mound, the mouths upwards,.

They were fabricated without the use of the lathe, and rudely scored with lines and circles; these urns were half filled with ashes, calcined bones, and black greasy earth.

[He supposed] that this tumulus had been a family burying-place of some British chief, the larger mound being possibly the cemetery of his tribe.

[3]English Heritage NMR Monument Reports record a range of possible historic sites within the parish from analysis of cropmarks.

In Wold Newton people both collected rainwater and exploited ground water sources, and considerable evidence remains[where?]

[citation needed] A borehole was sunk for general village supply in 1910 and powered by a John Wallis Titt wind pump, which was latterly converted to electricity.

To supply the livestock in the fields a second John Wallis Titt wind pump took the water up to a smaller reservoir in what is now Martin's Wood.

[9] Immediately after the Norman conquest the parish was split between three feudal lords: the Bishop of Durham, Earl Alan and a group of thanes including one Sortibrand.

The wood on the south side of Petterhills Pond used to be called Osier Holt, presumably because willows were grown there, taking advantage of the wet ground.

It commonly splits to form a double layer with localised areas of a marl complex up to 2 cm thick.

Separating the upper and lower Wootton Marls is white chalk, containing discrete nodular flints up to 40 cm thick.

This church was destroyed during the English Civil War when parliamentary troops came from Hull and a skirmish ensued in the churchyard.