Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire

Description
Aston-Rowant, a parish and a village in Oxfordshire, under the Chiltern Hills, near Icknield Street, 3 1/2 miles SE of Tetsworth, with a station of the same name on the G.W.R. It includes the liberties of Chalford and Kingston-Blount, the latter containing the hamlet of Kingston-Stirt; and its post town is Tetsworth; money order office, Chinnor; telegraph office, Lewknor. Acreage, 2924; population, 601. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is Early English, and contains an elegant ancient font. There are a chapel of ease at Kingston-Blount, erected in 1877, and Congregational and Methodist chapels. Aston House, Kingston House, and Kingston Grove, are chief residences.