[2] The local church of St. Mary is a grade I listed building[3] and the chancel, the oldest surviving part, dates to the late 13th century.

[5] The Domesday Book of 1086 states Worlingworth to be "quite large", with a population of 32 households, made up from 16 villagers, 14 smallholders, 1 slave and 1 freeman.

[7] John Marius Wilson wrote about Worlingworth in 1870 and described it as: In 1801 the village had the facilities of a blacksmith, a wheelwright, a shoemaker, a dressmaker, a brewers and maltsters, a general tradesman, a general store, a beerhouse and coaching inn, a workhouse, a school, a church and a stately hall.

[11] The village had a public house called The Swan Inn, which closed in 2016.

[12] There has been a steady decline in Worlingworth's total population from 1851 where the population total was 811 to 460 in 1961, possibly due to the migration of people and families to towns or cities to find work in factories rather than as farm labourers.

43 people were of the Middling Sorts which includes masters, skilled workers and small farmers who do not employ labourers and just 21 classified as Other.

[14] This suggests that Worlingworth was a small rural community which was strongly based around agriculture.