Manor
The earliest known historical record of Kirtlington is from AD 945. In 977 King Edward the Martyr held a witenagemot at Kirtlington attended by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the 11th century Kirtlington was a royal manor of Edward the Confessor. The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Cherielintone was now a royal manor of the conquering Norman monarchy. It remained a royal manor until 1604 when the Crown sold it to two wealthy Londoners.
The manor house is recorded to have had a date-stone of 1563, but this has now been lost. The house is L-shaped, has a polygonal stair-turret on the south side and a corbelled chimney-stack in the west side.
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