After the Norman Conquest of England most of the land was granted to Walter Giffard, later Earl of Buckingham.

It later came into the possession of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and remained with his heirs until passing back to the Crown.

After his death it was passed to his daughter Alice, wife of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk.

[5] Nearby North Stoke was the home of the contralto singer Dame Clara Butt, who died there and was buried locally in St Mary's Church graveyard in 1936.

[7] In 1944 a Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax bomber with a full bomb load caught fire over Wallingford.

Most of the crew bailed out, but Flying Officer Johnny Wilding (USA) and Sergeant John Andrews (RAF) steered the plane away from the town, and attempted to land in the open fields of Crowmarsh, but crashed.