Tetsworth is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire.

[3] According to the Council (in late 2019), business included the Zioxi educational furniture plant, the Swan antiques centre and some nearby equestrian and agricultural enterprises.

[5] One summary of the village history states that Tetsworth lands were included in the Bishop of Lincoln's Thame manor of 60 hides".

[5] Records indicate that during 1209–12 "Peter Talemasch and Robert Danvers were returned as joint lords of Tetsworth", of lands not owned by the abbey.

[5] By 1589 the Crown held the manor again and was in the process of selling it to Christopher Petty of Tetsworth and his son Charnell.

[5] He was described as a man of "unthriftiness, folly, and extravagance" who dissipated his family fortune, sold parts of the estate in 1680 and the whole of the remaining manor to Thomas Phillips of Ickford in 1683.

[5] Thomas's grandson Henry Phillips sold Tetsworth to Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, in 1756.

Samuel Ryder Weston and he left it to Charlotte Weston on his death; Charlotte retained ownership for some years but by 1859, it was owned by the Matthews family who sold the manor and farm in about 1866 to a local farmer, Joseph Cornish.

It was largely rebuilt in the 12th century[5] in the Norman, with some fine features including the tympanum over the south door.

[13] In 1846 Peers had a vicarage built and in 1851 he proposed to demolish the parish church and replace it with a new one.

The Oxford diocesan architect, G. E. Street reported that parts of the old church building were "of very considerable merit, and in good preservation", the chancel was "very perfect" and it would be "very inadvisable" to allow their demolition.

The architect John Billing designed the new church in the Early English Gothic style.

By 1818, a private day school had been founded by Isaac Caterer who became a minister of the Congregational church in 1828.

John Peers and other subscribers paid for a Church of England school to be built in the centre of the village.

Although the village was primarily agricultural, the 1851 Census specified that certain tradesmen were operating: "5 butchers and grocers and a baker, 7 milliners, dressmakers, and drapers, a tailor, a hairdresser and a shoemaker .... 4 wheelwrights, 2 blacksmiths and their journeymen, a saddler, a harnessmaker, and a joiner".

By this time, the London road had minimal importance to the village since the railroad had reached this area.

There are an Independent chapel and a national school.A Council report indicates that the community has always been primarily agricultural and that it experienced poverty during the early 19th century but had regained some prosperity by 1851.