On a lower slope 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south is Hyde End which has fewer than 12 farmhouses and Victorian cottages.

A newer settlement in the parish, Brimpton Common is on the elevated south bank of the Enborne next to Ashford Hill with Headley in Hampshire.

[citation needed] A mediaeval bronze steelyard weight was found in the garden of the old moated house at Brimpton Manor.

[citation needed] The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the village as "Brintone", and identifies Robert FitzGerald and Ralph de Mortimer as the lords of the manors of Shalford and Brimpton respectively.

[6] Brimpton was visited by William Cobbett on 30 October 1822 on his way to London; he noted its name as "Brimton", but did not write further about the village.

[7] John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) described Brimpton as "a parish in Newbury district, Berks; on the rivers Emborne and Kennet".

In 1302 the king appears to have been the guest of the Knights at Brimpton – his Letters Patent were dated from Shalford manor here 29 November, and the Hospitallers continued to hold this manor till their dissolution in 1540, when it was under the dissolution of the monasteries seized and redistributed by Henry VIII.

The village relied heavily on agriculture which covers most of the district and employed more than half of the working population in the 19th century.

It was later owned by Ralph de Mortimer (at the time of the Domesday Survey) and, subsequently, his son Hugh.

Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March died childless in the 1420s and the manor was inherited by Richard, Duke of York.

On Roger's death, his son – William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln – inherited the manor.

During this ownership, Simon de Ovile – a tenant of William – granted use of the 3.5 hide estate to the Knights Hospitaller.

The main Anglican church is dedicated to St Peter, and is a Grade II listed building.

[11] The interior has a chancel, organ chamber, vestry, a nave with three bays and two aisles, and is faced with ashlar.

[14] Brimpton Airfield, a mile east of the village, has a 620 metres (2,030 ft) grass runway for light aircraft.