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" incidentally being an ancient name of the village).

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.