Cornwell is a small village and civil parish about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Chipping Norton in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, near the county border with Gloucestershire.

[1] Cornwell was listed in the Domesday Book of 1096 as "Cornewelle" in the ancient hundred of Shipton.

[4] It was the home of Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet and his family occupied the house until the 19th century.

A new front was built onto the house in about 1750, and the drawing room has a fireplace in the style of Robert Adam.

[3] In 1939 the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, who had designed Portmeirion in north Wales, restored the house, added a ballroom and laid out the gardens.