Aston Somerville, Gloucestershire

Description
Aston-Somerville, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the river Isborne, 5 miles S by E of Evesham, and 2 of Hinton station on the M.R. Post town, Broadway. Acreage, 1004; population, 107. The manor was held, for upwards of six centuries, by the family of Somerville, of whom were William Somerville the poet, author of 'The Chase,' and Lord Somerville the distinguished agriculturist, who died in 1819. A salt spring occurs, and interesting fossils have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £227. The church is ancient, in the Norman style, and has an embattled tower with pinnacles; it contains an ancient effigy of a knight in armour, supposed to be one of the Somervilles.