Aston le Walls
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Aston le Walls is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, close by the border with Oxfordshire. The village is about Template:Convert north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, and Template:Convert south of Daventry. Neighbouring villages are Chipping Warden, Lower Boddington Upper Boddington and Byfield. According to the 2001 census the village had a population of 334 falling to 293 at the 2011 census.[1]
History
The villages name means 'eastern farm/settlement'. 'The Walls' refers to the local earthworks of uncertain date and provenance.[2]
The village is listed in 1086 as being within the Hundred of Warden.[3] By the late 1800s, the hundred had annexed nearby hundreds and been renamed the Hundred of Chipping Warden.[4]
Buildings
The Anglican church is dedicated to St Leonard and dates from the 13th century[5] and was restored in the 1870s.
There is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Sacred Heart and Our Lady dated 1827.
The Manor House is ca 1700.
Washbrook Farm, is an equestrian eventing centre.[6]
References
External links
- Photograph of the parish church
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- ↑ Recommended: Aston-le-Walls Template:Webarchive. Horse and Hound. 15 September 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2009