Asterley
Major Settlement in the Parish of Pontesbury
Historical Forms
- Estrelega 1208 SAS2/X
- Esterleg' 1255-6 Ass
- Asterlege 1252 MGS
- Astreleye 1291-2 Ass
- Estleg' 1255 RH
- Asturlegh' l.13th SBL3836
- Asturley 1396 Fine 1555 SBL3653
- Asturley iuxta Cawes 1398 SBL5435
Etymology
'Eastern clearing', v. ēasterra , lēah , identical with Asterleigh PN O 359. In this instance the name probably refers to the position of the settlement in relation to Minsterley, Westley and Winsley. The four items form a close-set cluster of lēah names.Caus is over two miles W., and not an obvious choice of affix.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Engine Coppice
- Hinwood
- Edgegrove
- Little Halston
- Shorthill
- Panson
- Wood Hall
- Sydnall Cottage
- Polmere
- Marton
- Nox
- New Ho
- Church Hill Wood
- Malehurst
- Pontesford Hill
- Little Coppice
Other OS name
- Buck's Coppice
- Cruckton Hall
- Hanwood Gate Pool
- Hare and Hounds P.H.
- Hollybank
- Hortonlane Coppice
- Jenkins Coppice
- Moves Coppice
- Hinton Hall, Hinton Plantation
- New Mill
- Clanbrook Bridge
- Lea Cross, Lea Cross Bridge
- Lea Hall
- Trap Cottage
- Coppice Cottages and Ho
- Curtiss Coppice
- Gipsy Coppice
- Moat Hall
- Papermill Coppice
- Slade Lane
- Upper Woodhall Coppice and Lower Woodhall Coppice
- Bank Ho
- Broompatch
- Hall Fm
- Hays Coppice
- Hurst Bank
- Lingcroft Pool and Lingcroft Coppice
- Longden Bridge
- Longden Common
- Longden Coppice
- Longden Manor
- Longdenwood
- the Poplars
- Red Lion Inn
- Rock Cottage
- Roundhouse Fm
- Slang Coppice
- Woodhouse Fm
- Oaks Hall
- Oaks Lodge
- Oaks Wood
- Little Plealey
- Plealey Ho
- Radlith
- Radlith Wd
- Tag's Gutter
- Bridgleys
- Crown P.H.
- Hill Fm
- Horseshoe P.H.
- Mount Pleasant Nursery
- Nills Hill
- Polesgate
- Pontesbury Hill
- the Ring
- Woodhouse
- Brook Ho, Cliffdale Ho, the Grove, Linley Terrace, New Ho, the Poplars, Quarry Villa, Rose Villa, Somerville, South View Villa, White Hall, Willow Ho
- Brookside Ho
- Cherry Hayes Cottages
- Earlsdale, Vch Viii
- the Grove
- Hill Fm
- Lower and Upper Mill
- the Lyd Hole
- Nag's Head P.H.
- Old Lodge
- the Plantation
- Skin Mill Cottage
- Smithy
Major Settlement
- Arscott
- Boycott
- Cruckmeole
- Cruckton
- Edge
- Farley
- Halston
- Hinton
- Lea
- Little Hanwood
- Longden
- Newnham and Polmere
- Oaks
- Plealey
- Pontesbury and Malehurst
- Pontesford
- Sascott
- Sibberscot
- Pontesbury
Field
- Asterley Mdw
- Back Lsw
- Banky Pce
- Bannistry Yd
- Bark Lsw
- Further Barn Lsw
- Barn Mdw
- Further Black Poles
- Lower Botts
- Little Brickkiln
- Brickyard
- Further Broomy Corner
- Lower Calves Patch
- Captains Mdw
- Lower Charles 's Fd
- Coalpit Bank
- Coat Mdw
- Cow Pasture
- Crooky Moor
- Curry Croft
- Doctor 's Mdw
- Big Fegg
- Flat Lsw
- Flat Mdw
- Four Trees
- Hacknells
- Hedge Cop
- Hempyard
- Hinwood Mdw
- The Homer
- Humphreys Fd
- Lees Lsw
- Long Lsw
- Marsh Hill
- Midsummer Oak
- Mount
- Lower New Ditches
- Nine Bridges
- Oak Fd
- Oaktree Pce
- Pinfold
- Pugh 's Mdw
- Quarry Pce
- Big Red Lake
- Ropes
- Round Mdw
- Santry Mdw
- Shout Pce
- Thistly
- Three Cornered Mdw
- Tithe Free Fd
- Townsend
- Upper Mdw
- Wateridge
- Farther Westley Moor
- White Lsw
- Wigley Mdw
- Wisher Fd