Saintbury Hill forms the dividing ridge between Upper and Lower Froyle.

Saintbury Hill Farmhouse, photographed here in the 1950s when it was an active farm, has appeared in all the Censuses. In 1841 it is just referred to as Saintbury Hill, and this included the farm cottages opposite which have been greatly extended and are today a large family house. In 1851, it was called Saintbury Hill Old Farmhouse - which might indicate it had stood there for some considerable time before the 19th Century - but, in 1861, it is referred to as Simbury Hill Farmhouse, which is very interesting indeed.

Modern theories suggest that the name 'Saintbury' is tied in with the naming of Froyle. The late Theo Beck investigated it in depth in his “Facets of Froyle”:-

In “The Place Names of Hampshire” based on the collection of the English Place-Name Society (Richard Coates, B.T, Batsford Ltd. London 1989). Froyle, A difficult name: Ekwall and Gover both toy with the idea that it is O.E. “hill of (the God) Freo/Frig”, which (1) is highly speculative, (2) does not account for the universal o. (3) does not really account for the morphology of the name - one might expect some c.12 form with three syllables, and (4) does not respect the fact that Upper Froyle is at the tip of a rather insignificant ridge and closer to the river Wey than to the more significant ridge to the north of it.