This had increased to 1,644 at the 2011 Census, with a further 1,463 assigned to the Sherfield Park development on the edge of Basingstoke,[3] prior to it being separated to form a parish of its own in 2016.

[4] Odiham continued to be held by the king, until around 1167–68, the manor was granted by Henry II to William Fitz Aldelin, on the occasion of his marriage to Juliane, the daughter of Robert Dorsnell.

[4] Sherfield was held in the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) by Thomas de Warblington, High Sheriff of Hampshire, tenant-in-chief from the king in serjeanty by the services providing laundresses, of dismembering malefactors and measuring the gallons and bushels in the royal household.

The reputed 1589 author of The Arte of English Poesie, George Puttenham, grew up at Sherfield Court[4] but, as an adult, disputed its ownership with his niece.

[citation needed] The present village developed about one mile north of the Manor house and church from around the 14th century.