The hamlet is presently engaged in a long running dispute with nearby Thruxton airfield to require local Cessna pilots to desist from flying low over the hamlet and thereby scaring domestic poultry, of which a number of deaths have been reported as a consequence.
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At the beginning of the 13th century Thomas de Port and Margery de Cundy held jointly of Robert de St. John the fourth part of a knight's fee in Snoddington, (fn.