[3] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.

[5] Over the years different variants of the name have been used, including Wdetuna, Wodetuna, Wodetone, Wudetuna, Uidetuna and Wootton.

The Woodton sanctuary has a portrait of Nelson's great-great-grandmother: Ann Suckling (d. 1653) is "beautifully and sensitively sculpted".

[8] Wootton Hall was built in 1694[citation needed] and in 1862 was listed as the seat of Robert Suckling and his wife Sarah Shelton;[9] it was demolished in 1841–2.

The window, however, did not fit perfectly, and in the end the devil had to be excised: what is left of him is an olive-green wing under the right hand of Christ.