Its main features are a Manor House, which has now been converted to a hotel, a 12th Century Church and the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, which runs through the outskirts of the village.

Henry IV annexed it to the Duchy of Lancaster and later on James I granted the Manor to Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury, who then sold it to Richard de la Bere.

His wife Margaret had the magnificent de la Bere tomb built in the south aisle of St. Michael's Church in Bishop's Cleeve in 1639, at a cost of £400.

[8] Thomas Goodman is thought to have begun building Southam House c.1500 and was completed by Sir John Huddleston,[9] who was steward of Sudeley Castle.

In 1862 The Earl of Ellenborough restored the church in memory of his first wife, Lady Octavia Stewart, who had died of tuberculosis after five years of marriage.