The manor was held by Wulfstan, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, before the Conquest. In 1086 it was held by Hugh de Bolbec, and was assessed at 10 hides with meadow, woodland for 50 pigs and a fishery supplying 1000 eels. The manor passed to the earldom of Oxford, from which it was severed in 1284 when the earl, Robert de Vere, bestowed it on William de Warenne as his daughter Joan’s dowry. The church meanwhile had been granted by Hugh de Bolbec to the monks of Woburn. Medmenham abbey was founded from Woburn in 1204 on lands granted by Isabel de Bolbec, and the advowson must have travelled with it, as in 1223 it was held by Medmenham abbey. The dedication to St Peter and St Paul is recent; older sources have it as St Peter’s (e.g. VCH, Pevsner and Lipscomb’s 1848 The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham).