This suggests that the two Chalfields (Great and Little, or East and West) shared a water-mill which stood on the stream which lies between them.

[2] It was given to the National Trust in 1943,[3] with nine acres of land and an endowment fund, by Major R. F. Fuller, the lord of the manor.

[1] The small Church of England parish church, adjacent to the manor house and approached through the gatehouse of the manor, is dedicated to All Saints and has a chancel, a nave, a vestry, a south chapel, a bell-cote crowned by a short octagonal spire, and a porch on its west side.

Of the original 14th-century church only part of its nave survives, a new chancel having been built about 1480, when the porch and south chapel were added.

[10] In the 15th century Thomas Tropenell (c. 1405–1488) built much of the small village of Great Chalfield, including the manor, where he lived, and amassed a large landed estate.

[11] The Tropenell Cartulary manuscript, still kept at Great Chalfield Manor, was compiled for him as a record of his property acquisitions.