Description
Aston, a village and a parish in Hertfordshire, on the river Beane, 4 miles SE of Stevenage, and 2 1/2 NE of Knebworth station on the G.N.R. It has a post and money order office under Stevenage; the telegraph office being Knebworth station. Acreage, 2070; population, 541. The manor-house, at Aston Place, is a building of older date than the time of Henry VIII.£one room at the top of this house is 113 feet long. Six large barrows, supposed to be Danish, occur contiguous to the public road, close to Stevenage. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £350. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
