 The ecclesiastical parish was a joint benefice with Long Bennington under the patronage of Queen Victoria.The impropriator was the Earl of Dysart, but the tithes (tax income from parishioners derived from their profit on sales, or extraction of produce and animals, typically to the tenth part) were commuted after an enclosure of 1793 [under the 1773 Inclosure Act].A National School was built in 1847.