From the 12th century until 1956, the manor with about 4,000 acres (16 km2), was the property of the Kingscote family,[3] originally tenants of the Berkeley family of Berkeley Castle, whose principal residence was Kingscote Park.

It may have been a small town or villa estate, with evidence of a series of strip buildings replaced in the 4th century by a house within a walled compound.

Alan Gardner Cornwall was rector of the adjoining ecclesiastical parish of Bagpath with Owlpen from 1827 to 1842.

They are a lively account of his early life with the Clapham Sect in London, his friendship with the Kingscote family, whose daughter Caroline he married, and of his ministry at a time of social distress following the decline of the local woollen cloth industry in the 1830s.

Timby, J R. 'Excavations at Kingscote and Wycomb, Gloucestershire: A Roman Estate Centre and Small Town in the Cotswolds with Notes on Related Settlements.'