Aston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Blackwell

The Meaning of the Name

The name Aston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Aston.

Listed Buildings Near Aston

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Aston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Aston Hall - 0.48 km
Brough Bridge - 0.85 km
Mile Post at Os 189 826 - 0.86 km
Highfield Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.89 km
Mill Farmhouse - 0.92 km
Burghwash Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 1.02 km
Mile Post at Sk 176 834 - 1.09 km
Barn to North of Ryecroft Cottage Farmhouse - 1.13 km
Barn to South East of Brough House - 1.15 km
Brough House - 1.16 km
Chapel Farmhouse and attached Outbuildings - 1.19 km
War Memorial - 1.25 km
Daggers House - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Aston

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 5 lie within roughly a mile of Aston:

Navio Roman fort and vicus - 0.88 km
Anglian high cross in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church - 1.36 km
Standing cross in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church - 1.36 km
Wayside cross known as Eccles Cross - 1.37 km
Hope Motte - 1.45 km

Aston Today

Today Aston lies within the administrative area of High Peak, and the settlement recorded a population of 75 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Aston on Wikipedia .