Kempsford is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Fairford.

[3] The Battle of Kempsford occurred on 16 January 800 AD when Æthelmund led a group of Hwiccians from Mercia in a raid against the Wiltsaetas people of Wessex.

There is a field on the banks of the Thames called Battlefield where spearheads were dug up in 1670, encouraging the view that this is where the battle took place.

[9] In 1944 RAF Fairford was built, to serve as an airfield for British and American troop carriers and gliders for the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II.

The RAF used it to lift British troops for Operation Market Garden during World War II, with part of the site falling within the parish.

[10] RAF Fairford was the only TransOceanic Abort Landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle in the UK.

[12] The Thames and River Coln have deposited alluvial soil on the underlying Oxford Clay.

[15] The church has an eight-bay nave, chancel with wagon roof and three-stage tower supported by diagonal buttresses.