One of the barons, Hugh Despenser the Younger, obtained North Aston, which was now a manor of two and a half knight's fees.

[3] By the late 14th century the Earls of March held an estate of one knight's fee at North Aston as part of the barony of Clifford Castle.

[3] The manor descended via Broke's son John and grandson Sir Basil (died 1646) to Thomas Brooke.

Sir Basil Brooke and his son were recusants and Thomas was a Royalist, so in 1653 the Commonwealth authorities sequestrated his estates.

[3] The Parliamentarian Major John Wildman, who speculated in confiscated lands, bought North Aston[3] but in 1655 he was jailed.

[3] Rowe's son-in-law Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough inherited North Aston from him but sold it in 1733.

[3] When Foster-Melliar died in 1906 a Captain John Taylor of Southgate, Middlesex bought North Aston, which included a 990 acres (400 ha) estate.

[3] Lionel Hichens, chairman of Cammell Laird, bought North Aston Hall in 1929[4] and his family still owned it in 1980.

In 1976 the Captain's son, Colonel Anthony Taylor, sold the Manor itself to Charles Mackenzie Hill, who subsequently[when?]

[7] However, the south aisle ends in a chapel that has a 15th-century Perpendicular Gothic east window[7] and the nave has a 15th or 16th-century clerestory.

[11] Since 1976 St Mary's has been part of a united Church of England Benefice with the neighbouring parishes of Steeple Aston and Tackley.

[13] It runs along the Cherwell valley and for a short distance it forms the eastern boundary of North Aston parish.

[3] In 1872 it moved to new premises when William Foster-Melliar converted the original coach house to the North Aston Hall into a schoolroom with two teachers' cottages attached.

After the second World War the number of pupils steadily declined, and in 1955 North Aston school was closed.