Aston
Major Settlement in the Parish of Aston
Historical Forms
- Estone 1086 DB 1201 Cur 1226,1235 Fees
- Estona 1169 P 1230 Bracton c.1235,c.1265 Bodl
- Aston 1275 RH 1291 Ipm
- Birminghams Aston 1635 Sess, Aston
- neere Birmingham 1655 FF
- Ayston juxta Burmingham 1286 FF 1318 Ipm 1377 ADvi
- Asshton 1546 LP
Etymology
'East farm,' v. tun . It lies just east of Birmingham, though Dugdale (636) thought it might have been so called because “eastwards from Wedgbury in Staffordshire , a town of some note in the Saxons time.”