Godington is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire.

The parish is bounded on all but the west side by a brook called the Birne, which at this point forms also the county boundary with Buckinghamshire.

[3] By the middle of the 12th century the manor of Godington was held by Richard de Camville, who gave Poodle Farm in the parish to the Augustinian Missenden Abbey in Buckinghamshire.

By the time of his death in 1552 Fermor also held Godington Manor, thus reuniting Poodle with the other former de Camville lands.

Most of the parish was farmed under the open field system until 1603, when it was enclosed by agreement between Sir Richard Fermor, the Rector and one of the local farmers.

[3] Until 1900 in the roof of the farmhouse at Moat Farm there was a Roman Catholic chapel that was served by a priest from Hethe.

[5] In 1928 the ecclesiastical parish of Godington was combined with that of Stratton Audley,[3] and in the 1930s the "new" parsonage was sold as a private house, now called The Old Rectory.

Godington was too small to have its own railway station, and the nearest Great Central ones were Finmere and Calvert, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the village in either direction.

Godington was nearer to Marsh Gibbon and Poundon station, about 2 miles (3 km) to the south on the Varsity Line.