[3] Members of the British Royal Family have been christened at St Nicholas's Church, due to its close proximity to Princess Anne's Gatcombe Park Estate.

Earliest records of a manor house in Cherington date back to 1074, when it was owned by Robert D’Oyly, Lord of Wallingford.

[6] Neale died in 1749 passing Cherington to his daughter Frances and her husband, Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet MP.

Over the course of the George family's ownership Cherington Park was greatly enlarged by the addition of three service ranges around a courtyard.

[8] William George left the Cherington Estate to his two grandchildren, Constance and Gertrude who, in 1934, sold it to Edward Tarlton,[9] of Bird & Co. a jute, railroad and mining company, now Ministry of Steel India.