[3] About 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village, between Charney and Pusey is Cherbury Camp, an Iron Age earthwork.

The surrounding area was largely marshland and the meaning of Charney is "island in the River Cearn".

Along with the churches of Longworth, Hinton Waldrist, Lyford, Buckland, Pusey and Littleworth, it is part of the Benefice of Cherbury with Gainfield.

After the First World War the centre step was replaced with a dressed stone memorial to the fallen, whose names are inscribed thereon.

It was built in the thirteenth century as a grange for Abingdon Abbey, which then owned extensive land around the village.

The machinery is mainly intact and the mill has been undergoing restoration by the Vale of White Horse Industrial Archaeology Group since about 1975.