There is also part of a Roman villa, the majority of which appeared to have extended out under the existing road and houses and will have suffered significant unrecorded damage.

There is evidence that the House of Wessex royal family owned land in Cholsey in the sixth and seventh centuries.

A royal nunnery, Cholsey Abbey, was founded in the village in 986 by Queen Dowager Ælfthryth on land given by her son, King Æthelred the Unready.

The nunnery is thought to have been destroyed by invading Vikings in 1006 when they camped in Cholsey after setting nearby Wallingford ablaze.

From Mondays to Saturdays Thames Travel bus route 136 links Cholsey with Wallingford and Benson.

[8] Writer and poet John Masefield lived in the parish for several years during World War I as tenant of Lollingdon Farm at the foot of the Berkshire Downs.

[9] The architect Edward Prioleau Warren (1856–1937), lived at Breach House, in Halfpenny Lane, Cholsey, built in 1906, which he designed for himself.

She lived with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, at Winterbrook House, formerly in the north of the parish, from about 1934 and died there in 1976.

Thirty wreaths adorned her grave including one from the cast of her long-running play The Mousetrap, and another sent "on behalf of the multitude of grateful readers" from the Ulverscroft Large Print Book Publishers.