Fringford village is in the north of the parish, surrounded on two sides by a bend in the tributary of the Great Ouse.

[2] Fringford's toponym is derived from an Old English tribal or family name Ferring or Fcaring and the ford that formed the only crossing-point of the narrow stream that flows around three sides of the village.

[citation needed] After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, William of Normandy gave his half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, manors that included Fringford.

Later the Crown deposed Odo and granted the manor of Fringford to Baron William de Arsic of Cogges.

[2] By the early part of the 12th century William's son Baron Manasses Arsic had built a stone church.

It was dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels and granted to the Benedictine Priory founded at Cogges by Baron William.

The ten parishes are part of the Deanery of Bicester and Islip, and the Dorchester Episcopal Area of the Diocese of Oxford.

Fringford had five blacksmiths, three carpenters, three sawyers, three brickmakers, a stonemason, a shoemaker, three decorators, a carrier, a coal haulier, two bakers, two grocers and a butcher.