The villages now known as Ogbourne St George and Ogbourne St Andrew appears in the Domesday Book, which was compiled in 1085-1086 on the instructions of William the Conquerer. Part of the entry reads as follows:
The King holds Ocheburne - In the time of King Edward it paid geld for 30 hides. the land is 25 canucales. [as much as 8 oxen could plough ] the demesne are 18 hides and there are 4 canucales and 6 serfs. There are 24 villans and 14 borders having 14 canucales. There are 6 acres of meadow and the pasture is 1/2 mile long by 4 furlongs broad, and there is the same quantity of wood. It is worth £25.
The translated entry for Ogbourne St Andrew reads as follows:
Milo himself held Ocheburn. Earl Harold [later King Harold, killed at the Battle of Hastings] held it at the time of King Edward and is paid geld for 10 hides. The land is 8 canucales, of this there are 6 hides in demesne - and there are 3 canucales and 4 serfs, and there are 11 villans and 4 borders and 8 acres of meadow. the pasture is 1/2 mile long and as much broad. It is worth £15.
Turchill [an ancestor of Churchill ?] holds 2 hides in Ocheburn.
