The Domesday entry shows that Quarrendon was a substantial settlement by 1086, placed within the hundred of Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire, with 28 recorded households (20 villagers and 8 smallholders), 10 ploughlands, and woodland sufficient to support 300 pigs - all signs of a well-resourced agricultural community. Before the Conquest it had been held by Swein under Esger the Constable, but by 1086 it had passed entirely to the powerful Norman baron Geoffrey de Mandeville, whose acquisition of the estate saw its assessed value rise from £5 to £8 - suggesting active Norman investment or reorganisation. Taken alongside the heritage-portal evidence that

This passage reveals that Quarrendon was home to the St. Peter's chapel, which once housed the tomb of Sir Harry Lee and Anne Vavasour, indicating the parish was a significant landholding for the Lee family in the sixteenth century. The reference to Queen Elizabeth I's visit highlights Quarrendon's prominence as an estate of sufficient status to host royal guests during the Tudor period. The ruined state of the chapel by the time of writing suggests the post-Reformation decline of the parish's ecclesiastical infrastructure.

This passage reveals that St Peter's Chapel, Quarrendon, was already ecclesiastically established and had secured independent burial rights from its mother church at Aylesbury by the early twelfth century, indicating a pre-1100 origin of some kind. By the post-medieval period the chapel had effectively become a private mausoleum for the Lee family of Quarrendon Manor, and active use as a place of burial had virtually ceased by the mid-eighteenth century, confirming the broader picture of the village's depopulation and the chapel's decline after the Lee estate was abandoned.

This inquisition post mortem, taken at Newport Pagnell in September 1439, records that the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, was held by entail under a Feet of Fines transaction dating to 1344, in which Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and his wife Katherine were the acquiring parties. The document thus directly links Quarrendon manor to the Beauchamp earls of Warwick in the mid-14th century - consistent with the VCH account (Vol. IV, pp. 100-102) showing that Maud, Countess of Warwick, was one of the heirs who received Quarrendon after the death of Richard Fitz John in 1297, and that the Beauchamp connection persisted through further conveyances confirmed by Feet of Fines into the 15th century. The inquisition of 1439 captures this in the form of a formal royal inquiry with named local jurors, preserving evidence of medieval manorial title-holding at Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire.

This Victorian book reveals that Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire was a place of considerable royal and chivalric significance during the Elizabethan period, serving as the seat of Sir Henry Lee - Queen Elizabeth I's Champion - who hosted elaborate annual tournaments there and formally resigned his championship to the Earl of Cumberland at the Quarrendon tilt-yard. The book also records a much earlier tradition associating Quarrendon with the birthplace of St. Osyth, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon saint, linking the site to the very origins of Christianity among the East Angles and Mercians. Together these passages show that Quarrendon was historically notable both as a pre-Conquest sacred site and as a showpiece of Tudor courtly culture.

This passage demonstrates that Quarrendon parish contains evidence of continuous occupation from the Neolithic through the Roman period. The area was a focus of Roman settlement activity centred on Akeman Street, with finds of pottery, metalwork, and cremation burials dating from the 1st to 4th century AD indicating a structured settlement pattern. Late Iron Age pits and ditches suggest pre-Roman occupation and land use prior to Roman road construction.

This 2001 publication by Paul Everson in Records of Buckinghamshire represents the most comprehensive archaeological and landscape study of Quarrendon. It remains the foundational scholarly work on the site's medieval settlement patterns, landscape evolution, and later Tudor garden features.