[1] The town is said to have originated as an Iron Age fort on its defensive hill top position.

During Saxon times it is likely that Maugersbury was the primary settlement of the parish, before Stow was built as a marketplace by the Normans in 1107 AD, to be nearer the cross roads.

[3][4] The Maugersbury Enclosure Bill was passed in 1766,[5] and later the village was the location of the Stow on the Wold Union Workhouse.

[6] Maugersbury is in the Stow ward of the Cotswold District Council, represented by Liberal Democrat Councillor Dilys Neill.

[7] It is part of the constituency of North Cotswolds,[8] represented in parliament by Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.