Description
Aston-le-Walls, a village and a parish in the county of Northampton, on the verge of the county, on the Roman road to Dorchester, near the Oxford Canal, 4 miles NE of Cropredy station on the G.W.R., and 8 NNE of Banbury. It includes the hamlet of Appletree, and its post town is Byfield (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage 1053; population, 117. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £375. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is of the 13th century. The Roman Catholics also have a chapel and a school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
