Woolstone is a village and civil parish about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) south of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse.

Woolstone Wells are a group of springs in the chalk escarpment less than 1⁄2 mile (800 m) south of the village.

Woolstone parish is long and thin, embracing both low-lying land in the vale and upland pasture on the downs.

The Ridgeway runs east–west through the parish along the top of the chalk escarpment just over 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village.

[4] Steam ploughing in 1884 revealed remains of a Roman villa built of clunch[5] in a field just west of Woolstone village.

[10] The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the Bishop of Winchester held an estate at Woolstone assessed at ten hides.

The manor of Woolstone was a property of the Priory by the 13th century and in 1308–09 it had a capital messuage that included a lord's chamber, kitchen, stable, garden and dovecot.

In 1798 Bartholomew Tipping VII, also a former High Sheriff of Berkshire, died childless and left the manor to his niece Mary Anne Wroughton and her husband Rev.

[2] South-east of All Saints' parish church are Manor Farm and a Georgian house of six bays with a hipped roof.

[12] Woolstone has a 17th-century timber-framed public house, the White Horse Inn,[13][14] that is controlled by Arkell's Brewery.

[2] In 1805–07 the Wilts & Berks Canal was extended eastwards from Longcot to Challow,[16] passing through Woolstone parish about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) north of the village.

Thereafter the canal declined until 1901, when the Stanley Aqueduct over the River Marden in Wiltshire collapsed and the little remaining traffic virtually ceased.