It is close to the Oxfordshire county boundary and about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south-east of the town of Banbury.

[1] increasing to a joint population of 528 at the 2011 census,[3] Rainsborough Camp is an early Iron Age hill fort in the southernmost part of the parish.

[4] Newbottle manor house is 16th century, built probably in the reign of Henry VIII[4] possibly by Peter Dormer, a member of the famous Buckinghamshire family, who held "Nubottel" at about that time when his daughter Elizabeth married the owner of Salford Hall, Salford Abbots.

[8] It still possessed St. James' in 1535 when the Crown's bailiff valued the Priory's property and estates in preparation for the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

[8] St. James' now forms a single benefice with SS Peter and Paul, King's Sutton.