History
The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.
In the early 1930s Lt-Col Edgar Herapath DSO lived at Great Ponton House. His sister married the cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne.
On 12 October 1932 Flt Lt Harold Marett and Acting Pilot Officer Adrian White crashed their RAF plane in the village, when with No 3 Flying Training School, when it nose-dived into a farmer's field. The passenger in the plane had attempted to parachute.
The Great Ponton railway station is now closed. In the 1930s it employed Baron Greenhill of Harrow.
On 4 March 2000 a train broke down nearby after a fire broke out in one of its air-conditioning units, and about one hundred passengers were evacuated.
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