Drayton is a village and civil parish in the valley of the Sor Brook in Oxfordshire, about 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Banbury.

However, the Domesday Book records that in 1086 Drayton still belonged to a Saxon thegn, Turchil of Arden.

Sir Giles' granddaughters Margaret and Joan were minors, but on reaching their majority and marriage they inherited the Drayton estate.

By 1588 Thomas Webb had died leaving Drayton to his brother Richard and widow Katherine.

In 1790 Catherine's daughter Arabella was married to John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset and received Drayton from her mother.

In 1825 Drayton was inherited by the Duke and Duchess's younger daughter, Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr.

[4] In the 14th century St Peter's was almost completely rebuilt[2] and north and south aisles were added, all in the Decorated Gothic style.

[5] Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet (1550–1615) was a puritan, and in 1598 he presented Robert Cleaver, a presbyterian to be curate of Drayton.

John Bridges, whom James I had appointed Bishop of Oxford in 1603, suspended Cleaver for failing to adhere to the Book of Common Prayer.

In 1607 Sir Anthony Cope persuaded Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury to accept Henry Scudder as Drayton's new curate.

[6] The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Drayton had a water mill, presumably on Sor Brook on the western boundary of the parish just below the village.

[2] The main road between Banbury and Warwick runs north–south along a ridge in the eastern part of the parish.

It is a 17th-century[2] Hornton Stone building with a thatched roof, and is controlled by the local Hook Norton Brewery.