 Until the nineteenth century, the manor of Sherfield upon Loddon passed between various noble families, including the Marquises of Winchester and later the Dukes of Wellington.In the 16th century, a country house known as Archer Lodge was built on the site of the Sherfield manor house and was later the residence of Paynton Pigott Stainsby Conant, a rich landowner.In 1870 this house was demolished by John Bramston Stane, who built a new house in a Victorian style, called Buckfield, in the middle of a wood of the same name.