In 1086 the manor of Worminghall was held by the Bishop of Coutances, and from him by Robert. It was assessed at 5 hides and also contained meadow for 2 plough-teams and woodland for 200 pigs. Before the Conquest it was held by Eadgifu from Queen Edith.
Charters for two markets and two fairs, all to be held at the manor, were granted by Edward I in 1304, one of each to John de la Ryvere and John de Ripariis. These look like the French and Latin versions of the same name, and would certainly represent a clerical error except that both the weekly markets and the annual fairs were on different days.
The church of Worminghall was given by William, son of Elyas, and his wife Emma to the Augustinian priory of St Frideswide, Oxford in 1172, and H. E. Salter has convincingly argued that this William was identical with the chronicler William of Newburgh, born in 1135 or 1136, who married the heiress Emma de Peri when he was 25 or 30 and whose descendants went by the name of fitzEllis. In 1182 or 1183 William left his wife and entered the monastery of Newburgh, where his brother was the prior, and it was there that he wrote his chronicle. Worminghall church was still held by St Frideswide’s at the visitation of 1520. It is now part of the benefice of Worminghall with Ickford, Oakley and Shabbington.