Site of the deserted medeival village of Waithe. Mentioned in Domesday and Lindsey Survey. The fields to the north and south of the church were ploughed up 20 years ago (c.1940s) and showed extensive earthworks with several occupation areas to the south of the church. Finds included a scatter of pottery of 13th to 18th century date, pieces of iron and copper cauldrons and a late 16th century child's spur. {1}{2} Earthworks and cropmarks of a deserted medieval village, comprising crofts, tofts, enclosures, ponds, hollow way, trackway, boundary ditches and a possible mill, identified on aerial photographs by the National Mapping Programme. {3}