Aston le Walls
| Aston le Walls | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 Aston le Walls war memorial | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP497510 |
| Location: | 52°9’18"N, 1°16’30"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 293 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Daventry |
| Postcode: | NN11 |
| Dialling code: | 01295 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Daventry |
Aston le Walls is a village and parish in the Chipping Warden Hundred of Northamptonshire, close by the border with Oxfordshire. The village is about nine miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, and 10 miles 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.[2] The ancient parish includes the hamlet of Appletree, which formed a separate civil parish between 1866 and 1935.
History
The village is listed in 1086 as being within the hundred of Warden.[3]
Buildings
The Anglican church is dedicated to St Leonard and dates from the 13th century[4] 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 of ca 1700.
Washbrook Farm, is an equestrian eventing centre.[5]
References
- ↑ SNC (2010). South Northamptonshire Council Year Book 2010-2011. Towcester NN12 7FA. pp. 39.
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120214&c=Aston+le+Walls&d=16&e=62&g=6452459&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1467193090328&enc=1. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ↑ Open Domesday Online: Aston-le-Walls
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 95. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
- ↑ Recommended: Aston-le-Walls. Horse and Hound. 15 September 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2009
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