After the Norman Conquest of England William the Conqueror granted the manor of Tackley to Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester.

Court Farm is near the site of a 12th-century moated house, and has a set of 17th century fish ponds,[2] constructed by John Harborne (1582–1651), a wealthy merchant from the Middle Temple who purchased the manor of Tackley in 1612, and had embarked on creating there a new mansion with an elaborate water garden.

The remains of one square and two triangular ponds, no doubt originally containing fish, are visible today.

who published in 1623 a plan of Harborne's water garden in its completed state, by Gervase Markham in the third edition of his Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.

In the 15th century the Perpendicular Gothic clerestory and upper part of the tower were built and both transepts were rebuilt.

Street directed a restoration of St. Nicholas' that the 20th century critics Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner called "rather insensitive".

However, by the time Thomas Cromwell made the Valor Ecclesiasticus for King Henry VIII in 1535, both abbeys had ceased to hold any property in the parish.

The Domesday Book records that in 1086 there was a watermill, Catsham Mill, on the River Cherwell between Tackley and Northbrook 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north.

St. John's College, Oxford also owned land at Nethercott and objected to the earlier enclosure proposals.

During the English Civil War in the 1640s a skirmish, "The Battle of Tackley", was fought on the banks of the River Cherwell.

[2] In 1787 the Oxford Canal was extended from Banbury down the Cherwell valley as far south as Northbrook lock, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Tackley.

It is now called Tackley and is served by Great Western Railway's Oxford Canal Line services.

In the south of the parish on Whitehill overlooking the River Cherwell is a satellite ground station[17] that the Marconi Company built for Mercury Communications in 1986.

Mercury was absorbed by its parent company Cable & Wireless in 1997, which continues to operate the station.

It would appear that the pilot having had a problem, and seeing Woodstock ahead, managed to turn around and eject at a very low height.

An off-duty policeman who was driving close to the scene of the crash suffered shock when his car was hit by debris.

The Oxford — Banbury A4260 road was closed for several days as the crash was investigated and a team from MOD St Athan removed the wreckage.