Early Saxon settlers were pagan and this is evidenced locally  by various Saxon burials, some of which  were interred in bronze age  barrows and other ritual sites. In 2020 evidence of an Anglo Saxon burial ground was found in trial excavations on the site of the proposed Royal Artillery Museum, together with Bronze Age and Roman material.  Such pagan burials are often found near parish boundaries, indicating the antiquity of parish divisions.

The continuity of Christianity is clear though from Roman times and Netheravon was an important Saxon religious and administrative centre. It was probably a Saxon “minster” church, a headquarters for missionary priests, with a jurisdiction covering the administrative district (or Hundred) of Elstub.

According to the Domesday Book in 1086 the church held numerous landholdings although by then the building was said to  be roofless and ruinous.  There are  nevertheless good late Saxon features in the church tower, itself probably built in Saxon  times.  The narrow arched openings to the north and  south may have been entrances into living accommodations, or the church may have  been cruciform in shape with a central tower.

Within the kingdom of Wessex, the administrative units which would later become known as Hundreds are believed to have been established in the seventh century. The Hundred of Elstub originally consisted of Enford, Netheravon and Fittleton and is said to have got its name from a meadow in Enford parish between Fifield and Newtown. It means “elder tree stump”. Courts dealing with criminal and civil matters and arrangements for the collection of taxes were  held in this  meadow  up  to the 17^th century.  Netheravon was the administrative centre of the Hundred and although Hundred Courts no longer functioned, the hamlet  of West Chisenbury remained subordinate to Netheravon until 1885.