There is evidence that the village was occupied as far back as 1066 AD as there are large curving holloway (or trackway) with a series of raised house platforms on either side in surrounding fields but for reasons unknown, the site was abandoned.
Runk)[2] Calverhall is the home of the renowned "Olde Jack Inn" public house/restaurant, named after a famed historical drinking vessel made of leather with a silver mounted inscripted band around the rim known as "the Jacorra" ("Corra"
It also boasts active sports and social groups, including cricket, tennis, bowls and a snooker/pool/recreation club, a much used village hall which caters for everything from local W.I.
meetings, youth club nights and even touring local theatre groups - in fact, all in all it has more than some much larger villages.
It does not however have a shop/post office which was lost a number of years ago, and was until 2002 served by the facility in neighbouring Ightfield before it too closed down and was converted into a private house.
The estate office is the village [clarification needed] and was for many years run by Timothy Heywood-Lonsdale (died 2014) before recently being passed onto his son, William.