Fernham is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England.

[2] It was within Berkshire until the 1974 local authority boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.

[2] The Earl supported Henry III, but the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, defeated the King at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, and thereafter the manors of Shrivenham and Fernham were granted to his wife Joan de Valence, Countess of Pembroke, for her maintenance.

[4] In 2008 the parish controversially[5][6] spent a £90,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund to strip St. John's of its Victorian pews, lay a modern floor, and reorder its interior for secular uses as a village hall.

[2] From 1966 to 2002, a community of Roman Catholic Benedictine nuns had its priory at a former farmstead 1⁄2 mile (800 m) northwest of the village.