Chacombe (sometimes Chalcombe in the past)[1] is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Banbury.

The name is thought to be from Old English: a compound of a personal name Ceawa and the word cumb, meaning "valley".

[3] In the mid-11th-century reign of Edward the Confessor, a certain Bardi held the manor of Chacombe "freely" (i.e. without a feudal overlord).

[4][5] However, the Domesday Book of 1086 records that after the Norman Conquest of England one Godfrey held the manor of Cewecumbe of Remigius de Fécamp, Bishop of Lincoln.

[9] The current building is essentially Decorated Gothic from the early part of the 14th century, including the three-bay arcades either side of the nave.

[10] It is one of only two wall paintings of Saint Peter's crucifixion known in England, the other being in the parish church at Ickleton in Cambridgeshire.

[16][17] The ridge and furrow patterns of Chacombe's former open field system can be traced in much of the parish, particularly from the air.

[18] Before 1901, the hundred court was disused and Chacombe parish part of the Southern Division of Northamptonshire.

[19] In 1900 the Great Central Railway branch line between Culworth and Banbury was built along the northern edge of Chacombe parish.