Rotherfield Park is an ancient estate first mentioned in 1015 as Hrytherafeld[2] meaning 'the open land for cattle.

The evidence for the park can still be seen today as a complex of ditches running around the estate.

Large flint scatters from the Neolithic were uncovered during field walking in the 1970s,[5] and prehistoric ceramic finds [6][7] dot the area, suggesting settlement.

The house was owned by the local MP and High Sheriff of Hampshire, James Winter Scott, in the 1860s.

[10] Rotherfield Park was also used in the fourth season of Grantchester (2019), for the scenes around the manor house owned by the new vicar's parents.