Laurence Pierson was a farmer of Easington from 1540 to 1541 and by 1545 the lease had finally passed to John Crocker of Hook Norton; his son-in-law Edward Hawten used it for a rent.

[1][3] Ordnance Survey maps from 1882, 1900 and 1922 show that the houses on Broughton Road are built over an old claypit called the Bear pit.

Berrymoor farm, whose last land lease was of mid-Victorian origin, had become a laundrette by 1922 and had lost two outhouses, but gained a small annex to the main building.

Most of the estate was built in the 1930s and 1940s as local industry began to grow, with a large expansion in the early 1960s, due to the London overspill.

The land south of the Foscote Private Hospital in Calthorpe, Oxfordshire and Easington farm were mostly open farmland until the early 1960s.

It had only a few farmsteads, the odd house, an allotment field (now under the Sainsbury's store), and the Municipal Borough of Banbury council's small reservoir.

Poets Corner actually covers the site of an old sporting rifle range, which went out of use when the army left just after the Second World War.

The people living in the three estates are generally more upper class in orientation, higher up on the social ladder and tend to have professional or managerial rather than blue collar jobs.

[citation needed] The Easington and Timms estate has only a few recent overseas immigrants, most of which are either Irish, Poles or Czechs.

The Cherwell Heights and Poets Corner estates tend to slant towards South Africans, Brazilians and Irish.