The Historic England Scheduled Monument record draws directly on Domesday Book to confirm that by 1086 Wolfhampcote - whose name derives from the Saxon personal name *Ufelm*, meaning "Ufelm's manor" - was already a functioning settlement in the hundred of Marton, Warwickshire, held by Turchil of Arden (the pre-Conquest Saxon thegn) with roughly 25 households and a resident priest, implying an earlier ecclesiastical presence predating the Norman church. The record also documents the later decline of the village through enclosure: a 1517 government inquiry identified two specific episodes in 1501 and 1510 in which local lords - John Ferres and Richard Quyney - forcibly cleared tenants and converted arable open-field strips to sheep pasture, accounting for at least 70 acres depopulated within a decade. Taken together with the Open Domesday data placing the settlement under two lords in 1086, this establishes a clear manorial history from the late Saxon period through to the Tudor depopulation that produced the deserted village earthworks visible today.

This passage establishes that a church existed at Wolfhampcote (then "Ufelmescote") at the time of the Domesday Survey of 1086, and traces the ecclesiastical descent of the living through named 13th-century clergy: in 1248 Geoffrey de Langele appointed a chaplain called Henry, and in 1256 Robert de Langele presented the living to Peter de Leycestria, a pluralist connected to St Mary's Warwick. It also records the transfer of the advowson from the Langley family to the Peto family by marriage in 1331, reflecting the tight connection between manorial lordship and church patronage typical of medieval Warwickshire parishes.

The monument encompasses both visible earthworks and buried archaeological deposits of a medieval settlement with a well-preserved layout including buildings, roads, crofts and fields. The site contains significant archaeological potential for understanding medieval rural life, settlement patterns, and population dynamics, particularly through examination of the burial populations and structural remains that have survived in good condition since excavations confirmed their presence.

This passage from Samuel Lewis's Victorian gazetteer establishes that Wolfhampcote was a substantial Warwickshire parish of 3,855 acres covering the hamlets of Flecknoe, Nethercote, and Sawbridge, with a population of 304 at the time of publication. It records that the ancient church of St Peter had its chancel restored c.1848, and that the living - a vicarage in the Diocese of Worcester worth £96 - was in the patronage of Lady Hood. The entry confirms the parish's administrative and ecclesiastical character in the mid-to-late Victorian period, situating it geographically near Daventry and Southam in south-east Warwickshire.

This document records the parliamentary enclosure process for Wolfhampcote parish during the Georgian era (1757). It demonstrates the formal legal procedure for enclosing common fields and waste grounds, showing that the Earl of Warwick (as lord) advocated for the enclosure bill, which was approved without amendment. The award also provides evidence of contemporary infrastructure and land boundaries in the parish, specifically documenting a major public road connecting Wolfhampcote to the nearby hamlet of Sawbridge.

The 1955 excavations at Wolfhampcote recovered a single Roman coin alongside extensive medieval pottery and artifacts (11th-15th century), indicating continuous occupation from at least the Roman period through the medieval abandonment. The presence of this Roman coin, combined with the substantial medieval structures (moat, fishponds, buildings), suggests Roman and medieval occupation within the same site; however, the primary evidence recovered relates to the medieval settlement rather than systematic Roman or prehistoric occupation.

This 2019 archaeological evaluation by Archaeology Warwickshire examined a development site at the former caravan park on Bush Hill Lane in Flecknoe (which lies within the Wolfhampcote parish). It represents recent professional archaeological investigation of the immediate area surrounding the historic deserted medieval village of Wolfhampcote.