[4] Just south of Chipping Warden village is Arbury Banks, the remains of an Iron Age hillfort.

[7] At Blackgrounds about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) east of the village are the remains of a Roman villa beside the River Cherwell.

In 1238 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln obtained royal letters from Henry III revoking Chipping Warden's right to hold a market.

[6] The east window of the chancel and the four-bay arcades between the nave and the north and south aisles are from the early part of the Perpendicular Gothic period.

[17] The parish is now part of the Church of England benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.

[20] Among witnesses who testified under oath before their Lordships was John Pargiter, a farmer of Chipping Warden, who stated: "That, in the Beginning of June, 1741, he observed a Man (whom he described), and afterwards found it was Lord Talbot, to meet the Dutchess as she was walking alone in the Fields near that Place; and thereupon mentioned adulterous Familiarities which passed between them.

[20] The Journal of the House of Lords delicately omits the details of the "adulterous Familiarities" but records that subsequent witnesses testified "as to the sending for a Midwife to the Dutchess; her being delivered or brought to Bed of a Daughter".

[20] RAF Chipping Warden, just northwest of the village, was built during the Second World War and commissioned in either 1941[21] or 1943[22][23] as a Bomber Command Operational Training Unit.