In 1823 John Keble (of Fairford) became Vicar of Southrop and Eastleach. and lived at The Lodge (then called Southrop Parsonage) from 1823 to 1827.

Southrop Manor Farm House was built in 1623, and its Tithe Barn would have been built around this time too.

Since the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 (Southrop Manor being one until then), the English population had lived quietly for fifty years.

There is much evidence of medieval farming around Southrop. Farming techniques then involved piling up the soil in long rows known as ‘ridge and furrow’.

In 43AD the Emperor Claudius's troops invaded Britain and the conquest had properly begun.