Asthall, Oxfordshire

Description
Asthall, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on the Windrush river, and on Akeman Street, at the SW end of Wychwood forest, 2 1/2 miles ESE of Burford, and 4 N of Bampton station on the G.W.R. It was known to the Saxons as Esthale, and belonged to Roger d'lvri. The parish includes also the hamlets of Asthall-Leigh, Worsham, Fordwells, Field Assarts, and Stonelands. Post town, Burford (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2259; population, 351. A large barrow, believed to be the sepulchre of some person of note, is on Akeman Street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £130. Patron, Eton College. The church is ancient, and a new one, at Asthall-Leigh, was built in 1861 as a chapel of ease to the parish church.