[2] According to the Domesday Book, Wootton ("Odetune") was held by one Godric from the King before 1066, but by 1086, most of the estate had been placed under the New Forest.

[3] A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in Wootton after a preacher visited the hamlet in 1843 and "converted a number of sinners . . .

"[4] The chapel building still survives and is a red brick structure with a slate roof on Tiptoe Road.

[5] In 1855 the population of Wootton is reported as including an inn-keeper for the Rising Sun, a shop-keeper, a schoolmistress, a post-office "receiver", a shoemaker, two blacksmiths, and two carpenters.

[8] The Rising Sun public house at Wootton has been on its present site for over two hundred years.