Drayton is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

One is about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) north of the village at Sutton Wick, overlapping the parish boundary with Abingdon.

[3] An episode of the Channel 4 television series Time Team called "In the Halls of a Saxon King", first transmitted on 5 September 2010, investigated archaeological sites from various periods between Drayton and its eastern neighbour Sutton Courtenay.

[6] In 955 King Eadred granted 10 hides of land at Drayton to a thegn called Eadwold.

Eadwold left the estate to Abingdon Abbey but King Æthelred II, who was crowned in 978, seems to have held the manor, as in 983 he granted three hides of it to his butler, Wulfgar.

In 1879 the church was restored and the south porch was added, both to designs by the Gothic Revival architect Edwin Dolby.

[6] In 1517 an inquiry found that enclosure of arable land at Drayton had put 16 labourers and their families out of work.

[6] In 1924 Drayton still held traditional celebrations on May Day and performed a Mummers play at Christmas.

[15] The canal made a long descent from its summit pound near Swindon to the River Thames at Abingdon.

In June 1840 the Great Western Railway reached Steventon, 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) south of Drayton.

The nearest main line station is now Didcot Parkway, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Drayton.

Drayton has two pubs, the Red Lion[18] (controlled by Greene King Brewery) and the Wheatsheaf.