Description
Aston-Upthorpe, a parish in Berks, 3 miles E of Upton station on the Didcot and Southampton railway, and 4 SW of Wallingford, which is the post town and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1322; population, 156. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Upton, in the diocese of Oxford; value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is ancient. This is said to be the site of the battle of Escendum in 871, when Ethelred and Alfred routed the Danes.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
