[3] The toponym is Old English, recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Chidintone, meaning "estate of a man named Cydda".

[5] After the Norman conquest of England the manor was held successively by the De Salcey, Willescote or Williamscote, Babington, Browne and Browne-Mostyn families.

[6] After the English Reformation the Browne family were recusants with their own Roman Catholic chapel and priest, and they ensured the survival of Catholicism in this part of Oxfordshire.

[7] Kiddington Hall was built in 1673, and in the 18th century "Capability" Brown laid out the gardens.

[8] In 1850 the architect Charles Barry rebuilt the house so completely that no external trace of the original building is visible, added a new stable block and remodelled the gardens.

[8] In 1845 the chancel was rebuilt in its present apsidal form on the original Norman foundations to designs by George Gilbert Scott.

[8] In 1848 the Perpendicular Gothic east window was removed and re-used to form sedilia.