Beside the church are almshouses built by Sir William Morton in 1671 in memory of his wife and children, whose names are inscribed above the windows.

Sir William was a Royalist Commander in the Civil War and lived in nearby Hampden Manor in Mill Street.

Other residents of Hampden Manor have included Sir John Vanbrugh, during the building of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock.

Thomas Beecham formulated his pills while living in a cottage near the manor and worked for a time as a gardener for John Sydenham.

3. c. clviii]]) was implemented in 1818, a large area south of it was unenclosed common land and the village widely known as Kidlington-on-the-Green.

After a peremptory change by the Parish Council to town status in November 1987, this was voted down by 83 per cent three months later in a ballot of the local electorate.

[8] In June 2016, the BBC reported weekly coachloads of sightseers from China arriving on Benmead Road, Kidlington, who were seen posing for photos in front gardens and against parked cars, with no apparent reason for their interest.

[10] In November 2016, after analysing results of a Chinese-language questionnaire given to some tourists, the BBC found that "looking for the true sense" of Britain was one reason for the visits.

From the 1980s onwards it has been Oxfordshire County Council policy to open a new station on land between Flatford Place and Thorne Close on Lyne Road.

At Water Eaton, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of the centre of Kidlington, there was a railway halt at Oxford Road on the former Varsity Line.

Kidlington has about 50 shops, banks and building societies, a public library, a large village hall and a weekly market.

The pubs along the main A4260 through the village are, from north to south, the Highwayman Hotel (originally the Anchor, then the Railway Hotel, then the Wise Alderman, before being renamed again in 2009),[13] the Black Horse, the Black Bull and the Red Lion, with the King's Arms in the Moors and the Six Bells in Mill Street.

[15] The headquarters of Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Thames Valley Police and the county St. John Ambulance are in Kidlington, as is the UK head office of the European publishing firm Elsevier and Oxford Airport, renamed London Oxford Airport in 2009 and important to local development.

Opposite is Langford Locks industrial estate and Oxford Motor Park, with showrooms for Honda, Nissan, Toyota and other makes.

Campsfield House, an immigration detention centre run for the UK government, is near the industrial area and the airport.

[17] Kidlington Amateur Operatic Society (KAOS), founded in 1977, performs varied choral material in the village several times a year and has regular productions of musicals.

In the 2010–2011 season Kidlington first reached the final of the Oxfordshire Senior Cup, where it was beaten by Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium.

In April 2012 it reached the final of the Oxfordshire FA Sam Waters Challenge Cup, losing 3–2 after extra time to Highfield.

[22] In 2022, Oxford United asked Oxfordshire County Council to transfer c. 18 hectares (44.48 acres) of land for the development of a new 18,000 capacity football stadium with ancillary leisure and commercial facilities to include, hotel, retail, conference, and training/community grounds on Green Belt land at Stratfield Brake near Kidlington.

[25] In February 2023, Oxford United unveiled plans to build a new 'all-electric', 16,000-seat stadium, to open in 2026, on the Triangle site in Kidlington.