There are remains of a Roman villa on the Ditchley Park estate at Watts Wells, less than southeast of the house. It was a colonnaded house with outbuildings, threshing floors, and a granary with capacity for the produce of about of arable land. It was surrounded by a rectangular ditch by . The site is less than north of the course of Akeman Street Roman road, and is one of a number of Roman villas and Romano-British farmsteads that have been identified in the area, apparently associated with the territory bounded by Grim's Ditch.