 The village is perhaps best known for its links with Isaac Newton, who is known to have lived nearby and visit the village on numerous occasions and made carvings in the wall of the church porch, and for the presence of nearby RAF North Witham.The origin of the name "North Witham" is uncertain, though the village appears in the "Domesday Book" of 1086 as "Widme" and then again in 1382 in the will of the village rector as "N Wythum.