[1] Crowell village is a spring line settlement at the source of a stream called the Pleck at the foot of the Chiltern Hills escarpment.

[2] Crowell is a strip parish about 3 miles (5 km) long on a northwest – southeast axis and less than 1⁄2-mile (800 m) wide at its widest point.

The Lower Icknield Way forms the low-lying northwestern boundary of the parish[2] and The Ridgeway traverses the upland southeastern part.

An earthwork about 750 yards (690 m) long on a north – south axis ascends the Chiltern escarpment in Crowellhill Wood.

Crowell passed to Peverel's son-in-law Richard de Redvers (d. 1107) and then descended with his heirs the Earls of Devon until at least 1375.

The Reverend John Stopes, Rector of Crowell (d. 1668), bequeathed 4 acres of land whose income would be used to assist the poor of the parish.

In 1883 the Great Western Railway took over the line and in 1906 the company opened Kingston Crossing Halt, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Crowell.

In 1957 British Railways withdrew passenger services from the line[2] and closed the section between Chinnor and Watlington that included Kingston.

[9] The 2011 Census incorporated its figures into an output area accordingly used to enlarge the civil parish definition of Chinnor to the northwest due to Crowell's small population.