35496 The settlement of Little Ponton is first documented in the Domesday Book, and the name possibly derives from the Old English for 'village, farmstead in the hollow or depression'. There is a tenth century grave cover in the church, which itself Saxo-Norman. Countess Judith owned a manor at the time of the Domesday Survey which also had four mills. This manor was successfully claimed by Robert de Todeny. There was a minimum population of about 15 at that time. {1}{2}{3}{7} There were 13 households in 1563, and 11 by the early eighteenth century. {4}{5} In the mid nineteenth century there was a population of about 180 in Little Ponton. {6} Medieval crofts, enclosures and buildings have been recorded on aerial photographs, as well as the remains of part of the ridge and furrow field system. These remains appear to be at least partly ploughed out. {8}{9}{10}