[1] Winterbourne was mentioned in 951 when the bounds of Chieveley were defined at the time when King Edmund's brother Edred gave it to Wulf or Wulfric, his bailiff.

[1] In August 1552 during the plundering of churches under Edward VI, records show that "one cope of satin of Bruge and one frontlet for the hie Altar of braunched damask" were stolen.

[1] In the early 20th century, there remained a historic tradition of a Rogation Day procession for the blessing of the fields.

She is purported to have run away in dismay on hearing three blasts of a trumpet, which told her that her lover and her father had been killed at the battle of Newbury.

[1] Winterbourne has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), called Winterbourne Chalk Pit and another on its western border called Snelsmore Common[2][3] The Church of England parish church of Saint James was completely redeveloped in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In July that year, his forces had taken on Prince Rupert and company at Ripley in Yorkshire, during which a successful (for the Parliamentarians) skirmish, they stole a statue of a wild boar that Lord Ingleby had brought back from Italy as one of a pair.