[3] It is again attested in charters of the 990s associated with King Aethelred II, in the form æt Cyrne, meaning 'on the River Churn'[4] (the origin of whose own name is ancient, but whose etymology is obscure).

[5] To this was added the Old English word ēa ('river'), first attested in the form Cernei (and variant spellings like it) in the Domesday Book of 1086.

[7] Two fragments of a carved wooden crucified Christ, a head and a foot, were found in 1915 concealed in a wall of the village church.

The village lies within the Cotswold Water Park, an area made up of over 140 lakes, mostly formed by gravel extraction.

[15] The annual Street Fair and Duck Race is a local festival held over the weekend of the second May bank holiday.

The Street Fair was started by All Hallows church over 30 years ago and since then it has grown and developed into a major event.

There are three public houses in South Cerney, The Old George, The Royal Oak and The Eliot Arms Hotel.

[16] Duke of Gloucester Barracks, on the site of the former RAF South Cerney, is located approximately 1 mile outside the Village.

Ann Edwards lived in South Cerney and was actively involved in education in the early 19th century.

The school was designed as a semi open-plan building by a local architect and stands on a landscaped site of approximately six acres.

[20] Several mammoth bones and Neanderthal stone tools from the last Ice Age were found by a local couple in a quarry at Cerney Wick.

Cotswold District Council undertook a boundary review which resulted in the former 'Water Park' Ward being replaced.

Cirencester is located at the hub of a significant road network with important routes to Gloucester (A417), Cheltenham (A435), Warwick (A429 "Fosseway"), Oxford (A40 via the B4425), Swindon (A419), Chippenham (A429), Bristol and Bath (A433), and Stroud (A419).