This settlement, likely to be of medieval origin, appears to be surrounded by small burgage or 'toft and croft plots' presently in mixed arable and pasture usage. Surviving buildings, clustered along the main road through the village range from the extremely important Manor (or Hawksworths) House (SMR 778) which features an important early staircase and internal cruck frame, to three other cruck framed buildings and a seventeenth century farmhouse. It is possible to infer from the regular layout of plots at either end of the village that there has been contraction of settlement in the centre of the village before the 1850s. Legibility of previous character types is uncertain as we have no evidence as yet for earlier landscapes.