The Domesday book records that there was a small Saxon church occupying this site where the current nave is. At that time the land was owned by the saxon Lord Harold of Sudeley who mainly owned land in Gloucestershire.
 

 
Monument to Charles Dixwell (d1591), his wife Abigail (d1635), and their four children William, Edgar, Humphrey, Basil, and Barbara.
 
 
 

 
The parish church of St. Giles, Chesterton, is mostly of an early C14 Decorative design, with some remnants of an earlier C13 church. The church itself is in an isolated field some distance from the village, but near to the old Peytos mansion that was pulled down in 1802. Its isolation makes the inscription on the sundial strange, as there were hardly ever anyone around to loiter.
 

Built in 1632 to a design attributed to either Indigo Jones or his pupil John Stone. The design of this windmill is unique both structurally and mechanically. It is a circular structure which consists of a high open ground floor with six pillars and raking round arches, and an upper floor. There is no staircase and access to the upper floor must have been by ladder.
 
The machinery was modified in 1860 and last used in 1910.
 

 
The company was found in 1855 by John Clayton (1827-1913) and Alfred Bell (1832-95) and continued making stained glass until 1993.
 
Clayton and Bell’s designs were initially manufactured by Heaton and Butler, with whom they shared a studio between 1859 and 1862. They employed Robert Turnill Bayne, a Pre-Raphaelite artist, as a designer. In 1862, when Baynes joined Heaton, and Butler, and Clayton and Bell started to manufacturer their own glass.