The two former parishes each had a church, and both continue in use, although they are only about three-quarters of a mile apart; they are both Grade II* listed buildings.

A greensand ridge overlooks the valley from the west, and here the Teffont Archaeology Project has since 2008 investigated the site of a large Roman-period temple complex.

This sacred landscape may have marked the western edge of the territory of the Durotriges, whose coins have been found in Teffont.

[8] The name Teffont has an Old English element (*tēo, boundary),[9] though it has also been said to derive from an unattested personal name *Teōwa.

[11] *Funta sites usually lay between areas occupied by Britons and those of early Anglo-Saxons, and the name may have been applied to a spring where people met to agree boundaries.