The villages name means 'eastern farm/settlement'. 'The Walls' refers to the local earthworks of uncertain date and provenance.
The village is listed in 1086 as being within the Hundred of Warden. By the late 1800s, the hundred had annexed nearby hundreds and been renamed the Hundred of Chipping Warden.
Buildings
Elizabeth Orme memorial
The Anglican church is dedicated to St Leonard and dates from the 13th century and was restored in the 1870s.
There is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Sacred Heart and Our Lady dated 1827.