Water Eaton manor house was built for Sir Edward Frere in 1586 but reduced in size at a later date.

[12] At the end of the First English Civil War in June 1646 the Articles of Surrender for the siege of Oxford were finally agreed in Water Eaton.

St Frideswide's Farmhouse is a 16th-century Tudor stone house, and towards the end of that century was a home of the Lenthall family.

[17] In the 2000s Oxfordshire County Council opened a Park and ride site just south of the grain silo.

In October 2015 Chiltern Railways opened Oxford Parkway station next to the park and ride and near the site of the former halt.