 The lands were held by Bury Abbey before and after the Norman conquest of England

Around 1783 a post mill was built North East of the main village near Mill Road, this was demolished circa 1920.In 1816 Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet, the major land owner in the area, founded one of the earliest allotment schemes in the country.He started granting land to his labouring tenants at the end of 1816 and early 1817 shortly after the food and anti-machinery riots, commonly known as the 'Bread or Blood' riots.