At the Domesday survey of 1086 the village is named as Nordhalla or Nordhals[REF] and is recorded as being a medium-sized settlement with 13 households of freemen or smallholders [REF].
During World War I Covehithe airfield, a night-landing ground, was operated from 1915 to 1919 by the Royal Naval Air Service as a satellite station for RNS Great Yarmouth.