[1] At the 2011 Census the population of the village remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Middleton Cheney.

Neolithic artefacts found include four flint arrowheads and a fragment of a polished stone axe southeast of the village.

[2] Traces have been found also of an Iron Age settlement in the north of the parish on Arbury or Arberry hill.

Fragments of Iron Age and Roman pottery have been found in the eastern part of the site.

[2] East of the village are the remains of an Iron Age settlement and Roman villa dating from 1st to the 4th centuries AD.

In the 1820s coins from the reigns of Tetricus (271–274) to Constans (circa 323) were found in the walled garden of Thenford House.

[2] Early in the 19th century a Roman funerary urn containing ashes was found in St Mary's parish churchyard.

Nearby were found "a medal of Constans", plus tesserae suggesting that a building with a mosaic floor had been in the vicinity.

The watermill was demolished in the 20th century but traces of its foundations, leat and mill pond survive.

He is represented by a recumbent stone effigy in a recess framed by composite order columns.