[3] Once a farming community with the usual supporting trades, by the turn of the second millennium it had moved towards being a dormitory village.

Despite rising property prices, community activity remains[2] and local associations include clubs for music, cricket, golf and tennis.

[7] The nearest railway station is at Moreton-in-Marsh (10 miles, 16 km away), providing several trains daily to London Paddington, Great Malvern, Hereford, Worcester and Oxford.

The Renaissance playwright and poet Ulpian Fulwell was Rector of Naunton from about 1570 until his death in about 1586.

[11] Another Rector, from 1660, was the prolific author and translator Clement Barksdale (1609–1687), who held the parish in plurality with Stow-on-the-Wold.