Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Aston le Walls is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Appletree.

Alternative names: Ashton le Walls

Parish church: St. Leonard

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic 

Adjacent Parishes

Aston le Walls Parish Registers

These records include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1706-1812

Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASTON-LE-WALLS, a parish in the district of Banbury and county of Northampton; on the verge of the county, on the Roman road to Dorchester, near the Oxford canal, 4½ miles NE of Cropredy r. station, and 8 NNE of Banbury. It includes the hamlet of Appletree; and its Post Town is Chipping-Warden under Banbury. Acres, 1,270. Real property, £3,436. Pop., 221. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £535. Patron, St. John’s College, Oxford. The church is of the 13th century. The Roman Catholics have a chapel and a school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASTON-LE-WALLS (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Banbury, hundred of Chipping-Warden, S. division of the county of Northampton, 8½ miles (N. N. E.) from Banbury; containing, with the hamlet of Appletree, 252 inhabitants. This parish, which is intersected in its north-eastern extremity by the road from Banbury to Daventry, comprises 1528 acres, of a highly productive soil; the substratum is rock, and stone is quarried for repairing the roads and for rough building.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £9. 9. 7.; net income, £343; patrons, the President and Fellows of St. John’s College, Oxford. The glebe comprises 140 acres. The church is an ancient structure in the early English style, with a low Norman tower. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Directories

Kelly Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire 1869 – Google Books

Kelly Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire 1885 – Archive.org

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Banbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Brackley
  • Poor Law Union: Banbury
  • Hundred: Chipping Warden
  • Province: Canterbury