The village name was Anglo Saxon in origin, meaning 'cress hill'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cærsehlaw.
The parish church of the village was demolished during the English Civil War, and was never replaced.
In the Victorian era there was just one house left in the village, the manor house. This was formerly owned by the Knights Templar and, following their suppression, the Knights Hospitaller. Following the dissolution of the Monasteries it was held by the Crown, and the whole of the manor was used as pasture for the cattle of the Royal Household. It was then the property of Lord Clifford but has also now disappeared.
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Photograph of the Manor House (http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/detail.asp?calledFrom=oai&imageUID=52713)
The parish of Creslow contains 886 acres, comprising 47 acres of arable land and 813 acres of permanent grass.
In the reign of Edward the Confessor CRESLOW MANOR was held by an English lady called Wulwene, and by 1086 formed part of the possessions of Edward of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire.
45) In 1660 Edward Mayne, presumably a descendant of Joseph Mayne, begged to be restored to the tenancy of the grounds of Creslow.
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