Tormarton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as paying 8 hides in taxation. The brass on the floor of the church nave is of a man in civilian clothes with a "penner and inkhorn". "Tor" is tower and "marton" is mearck, meaning boundary – that is the boundary between Mercia and Wessex. The cottage of the north west side of the churchyard was once part of a college of priests. The large house across the road, opposite the church, is Tomarton Court, at one time a rectory.