 At about that time it would have been in the ownership of Aelfgar, an Anglo-Saxon who also had interests which included manors at Weston-on-Trent, Newton Solney and Repton.It is his name that is given as the former owner of Walton-on-Trent's church, mill, of meadow and 35 square furlongs of pasture when the new king took them as part of his personal reward for winning the English crown.The village has a Church of England school.