Aston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Aston at 1.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Aston supported a recorded population of 8 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Aston was worth 2 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1.5 shillings – a fall of 25%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Aston (1086)

Pigs: 10
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 6 acres
Woodland: 30 pigs

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

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 6 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