Compton is a village and civil parish in the River Pang valley in the Berkshire Downs about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Didcot.

Compton has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) just to the south west of the village, called Ashridge Wood.

[4] In 1850 the nave and chancel were modernised[4] or rebuilt[3] and in 1905 the Gothic Revival architect John Oldrid Scott added the north aisle.

Despite Compton being a small village, in 2006 it became the founding place of a chemical manufacturing company called Carbosynth.

[6] Substantial portions of the BBC Television series Trainer were filmed in and around Compton and the next nearest village, East Ilsley.