The five-hide village of Wolston was in 1086 among the estates of Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, of whom it was held by Rainald de Balleul. He must have enfeoffed Hubert Baldran, who, between 1086 and 1094, with the consent of his wife, Alice, granted the church and two hides of land here to the Norman abbey of St. Pierre-sur-Dives. It was appropriated to the abbey and in 1220 a vicarage was ordained.