In 1808 the estate was sold to Thomas Smith and this transfer underlined another new dimension to English life - until then estates had largely been transferred through inheritance - now they were up for sale. Over the next few decades the house and village changed dramatically. At this time Easton Grey had a pub called the Crescent which was located on the Sherston to Malmesbury road, on the corner at the turning to Westonbirt - ideal for travellers. After his death his wife Elizabeth lived on her own for 37 years and became the main benefactress including the demolition and rebuilding of the village church in 1836 and the closing of the pub! 

Her son Graham Smith donated a small parcel of land in 1860 to build a village school. On the death of Smith in 1908 the estate passed to his nephew Graham Wilder who took over the estate following his Aunt's death in 1916. On the lawns of the south side of Easton Grey House there is an oak tree which was planted by the Duke of Windsor, when Prince of Wales, in 1923. He rented the house for three seasons whilst he hunted with the Beaufort. Colonel Graham Wilder sold the house to Captain Tremayne of Cornwall in 1936 who in turn sold it to Miss Jean Faudel-Phillips in 1950. The house was then bought by American heiress Didi Saunders in 1959. She remained here until the early 1990s when she sold it to another American, Sheldon Gordon who then sold it to the present owner Michael Green, founder of Carlton TV.

One final annomaly of Easton Grey is that during the Second World War a prisoner of war camp was set up in the parish on the B4040 adjacent to the medieval Whitewalls site. The Easton Grey camp was mainly for Italian prisoners of war, although some German troops were held here. At their height, British camps held more than 650,000 POWs and legend has it that although none successfully escaped, quite a few chose to stay! A small section of the Easton Grey camp remains, narrow wooden huts arranged in neat rows. In one of these there is a startling surprise; a set of exquisitely painted ceilings. The ceilings were painted by one of the Italian prisoners of war. The camp now houses a range of businesses including the well known food condiments business Tracklements (https://www.tracklements.co.uk/).