 There is a Grade II* listed Anglican church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.Its name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Golles-Wanesberge", with forms like "Wodnesbeorge" being attested a little later, around 1100, and as 'Wodnesbergh' in 1484.The name is believed to have meant "Woden's hill/mound" (Old English "Wōdnes burh") after Anglo-Saxon god Woden (the English cognate of the Norse Odin, known in Proto-Germanic as Wodanaz); though some of the spellings also suggest *"wænnes beorg" ('hill of the mound'), from Old English "wenn", "wænn" 'a tumour, blister, mound'.