Frilsham is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6.4 km) from Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire.The nucleated village is on a hill, with the parish church of St Widefride at its centre, surrounded by woods and meadows.[2] The manor was held of Edward the Confessor by two free men, two decades later on the Domesday Survey it was owned by Henry de Ferrers.The rebel Robert de Ferrers led an insurrection in 1263 and was three years later deprived of his earldom and estates, which were then granted to Edmund Crouchback, the king's son.Aside from the varied elevations an aesthetic point made was of the chestnut trees in the north of the church yard by gazetteer compilers in the 1920s.