Shirburn is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire.

The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the manor of Shirburn was divided equally between Robert D'Oyly and his brother in arms Roger d'Ivry.

[2] Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Whig politician and Lord Chancellor impeached in 1725, who purchased the castle in 1716 and extensively remodelled it, retired to Shirburn and was buried there after his death in London on 28 April 1732,[5] as were succeeding members of his family.

[6] The 2011 Census incorporated its figures for Adwell and Stoke Talmage to the north into an output area, used to equate to an arbitrarily enlarged civil parish definition of Shirburn, due to the former's small population.

British Railways withdrew its passenger services in 1957 and closed the line to freight traffic in 1961.