It is about 5 miles (8 km) west of Banbury, it was an exclave of Gloucestershire[2] until the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 transferred it to Oxfordshire.

[1] Before the Norman Conquest of England the manor was held by the English thegn Brictric son of Algar.

[1] After the Norman Conquest Brictric's lands, including Shenington, were granted to Queen Matilda.

[1] When she died in 1083 her husband William the Conqueror inherited her estates, and the Domesday Book records that in 1086 Robert D'Oyly was farming Shenington for the King.

[1] In about 1087 William II granted the honour of Gloucester, including Shenington, to a Norman baron called Robert Fitzhamon.

[1] In the 13th century the south aisle was added,[1] linked with the nave by an Early English Gothic three-bay arcade.

[6] Early in the 14th century the south aisle was rebuilt and new windows inserted in the chancel,[1] all in the Decorated Gothic style.

[8] The tower has a ring of five bells, all cast in 1678 by Henry Bagley of Chacombe[9] and a clock that was installed before 1720.

He and his wife, Martha Pyne, had a daughter, Marian Hughes, in Shenington on 14 January 1817 and she became the first woman to take religious vows in the Anglican church in modern times.

The Parish Register was destroyed, as the curate was keeping it in the Parsonage House in breach of ecclesiastical law.

[13] On 3 December 1810 a bare-knuckle boxing match was staged at Shenington Hollow, exploiting the parish's inaccessibility from Gloucestershire's Justices of the Peace.

In 1868 the National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland described Shenington: ... a parish in the upper division of Tewkesbury hundred, county Oxford, formerly in, Gloucestershire, 6 miles N.W.

[1] The building was enlarged in 1905[1] to absorb the children of neighbouring Alkerton, whose own National School was closed that year.

[16] In the Second World War RAF Edgehill was used for flight tests of experimental jet aircraft alongside aircrew training.