The Domesday Survey records that the manor was held by Sigeraed son of Aelfgifu, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, before the Conquest. In 1086 it was held by Turstin fitzRolf from Walter Giffard, and consisted of 10 hides of ploughland, meadow for 2 ploughs and woodland for 500 pigs. This Walter Giffard was probably created Earl of Buckingham by William II and died in 1102, leaving a son, Walter, who died childless in 1164. The Giffard lands remained with the crown until 1191, when they were restored by Richard I to Walter’s nearest heirs, the descendants of Rohais, the sister of the 1st earl. The two claimants in 1191 were Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford and William Marshal. The latter received the Giffard lands inEngland, and when his line failed in 1245 the Giffrad part of his estate passed to the Clares, Earls of Gloucester. The patronage of the church was held by the lord of the manor (i.e. the sub-tenants) until it was given by William of Missenden to the abbey of Arroasian canons at Great Missenden that he founded in 1133, as part of its original endowment. A market and a fair were said, in 1367, to have been granted by King Henry III to Joan, late wife of Hugh de Sanford at some time in his reign, but as she had never used the rights, King Edward III granted them to Thomas de Mussenden, tenant of the manor, in that year.
The parish is now in the benefice of Great Missenden with Ballinger and Little Hampden.