North Leigh is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire.

The course of Akeman Street Roman road linking Cirencester with London forms part of the northern boundary of the parish.

[3] In 1928 the remains of eight Saxon burials from the 7th century AD were found less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the centre of the village.

[5] The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the Norman nobleman Roger d'Ivry held the manor of North Leigh.

Roger d'Ivry granted two thirds of the demesne tithes of the manor to St. George's church in Oxford Castle.

[6] In 1279 the remaining third of the tithes and an area of land in the parish were made over to the Cistercian Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire.

[6] Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall had founded Hailes Abbey in 1245 or 1246, and also owned North Leigh manor.

[6] Lieu-Dieu Abbey in the Somme area of northern France was founded in 1191, and shortly thereafter it was given the tenancy of North Leigh manor.

[6] In 1765 James Leigh-Perrott sold the manor of North Leigh to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.

[6] North Leigh parish was farmed under the open field system until 1759,[6] when an Act of Parliament allowed their enclosure.

[8][9] St Mary's is particularly notable for its fan vaulted early 15th century Perpendicular Gothic style Wilcote chantry chapel[8][9] and its early 18th century Perrott burial chapel,[9][10] both of which are of unusually high quality for a village parish church.

[14] By 1005 there was an east–west road through Bladon, Long Hanborough and North Leigh parish that was the main link between Witney and Oxford.

In 1642 Royalist troops were billeted in the village after the English Civil War Battle of Edgehill and "plundered and pillaged" the neighbourhood.

[4] On 4 June 1644 Charles I, while retreating from Oxford, spent the night at Perrotts Hill Farm before continuing westwards to Burford.

[15] This led the interior of the building to fall into decay, and in the 1980s West Oxfordshire District Council tried to compel the owner to repair it.

In 1721 Anne Perrott, wife of the Lord of the Manor, gave money to pay for a teacher and books for children in the village.