King Edward, The Confessor gave land to one of his men for slaying a wild boar that had been in the Bernwood Forest. The man built a mansion on the land and called it 'Boar-Stall' which in Anglo Saxon means 'Boar House'. He built it in memory of the slain boar.
This man was given a horn from the boar and the legend says that whomsoever shall possess the horn shall be the 'lord of the manor of Boarstall'. From manorial records of 1265 the owner of the manor of Boarstall was also the ceremonial keeper of Bernwood Forest.
In 1312 the manor was fortified by the building of a defensive gatehouse. The house was demolished in 1778 but the gatehouse still survives, relatively unaltered.
During the English Civil War it was turned into a garrison by King Charles I who had possession of the town of Brill which was close to the Boar-Stall Tower.
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