Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Eastun 975 S 12th

• Estona c.1144 SAC 1249 SAC

• Hestuna sub Wrekena c.1187 SAC

• Aston' 1231-40 SAC

• Aston' iuxta Wrokene 1261-2 ForProc

• Aston' sub Wrekene 1271-2 ib

• Astoun under the Wrekene 1397 Cl

• Aston subtus Wreken 1535 VE

Etymology

The village is a mile E. of Uppington. The area to which it is central forms a well-defined corner of Wellington parish, but is not a parish in its own right or a Domesday manor. It has been included in this study of ancient and modern administrative centres because it was a pre-Conquest estate of 3 hides, the subject of a royal charter dated A.D. 975. In the boundary survey of this the S.E. boundary is given as 'along the Wrekin'.