Aston

The Chapel-en-le-Frith Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

The web page author could find no history of an Anglican Parish church here.

• The church would have been in the rural deanery of Eyam.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.

"ASTON, a township in the parish of Hope, and hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 2 miles to the E. of Castleton. The small stream Nor [Ed: sic - not 'Noe'] runs through it."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

Aston is a small village and a township on a slight rise 1 miles north of Hope and just south of Ladybower Reservoir. The township covers between 540 and 708 acres. You should stop and read the Parish Notices when you visit the parish.

• John SLATER has a photograph of the Railway station at Aston on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Hope entry where Aston is briefly noted in the Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Aston to another place.

• The parish has a Public House called "The Travellers' Rest," which appears to have opened around 1860. At last report, it was still operating. In 1891, Peter HALL was the victualler. In 1912, Mrs. Mary HALL was running the establishment.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Aston Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.

Chris PAGE also has a photograph of Aston Hall on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK185841 (Lat/Lon: 53.353476, -1.723076), Aston which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of December 29, 1803, MARRIED: "On Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. H. NORRIS, of Aston, near Sheffield; to Miss KESTEVEN, of Beighton Lawn, Yorkshire."

• Aston was an ancient township in the parish of Hope in county Derby.
   
• The township of Aston was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The citizens of Aston have an annual Parish Meeting of the citizenry to debate civic and political issues.
   
• You may contact the joint Hope with Aston Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they will NOT perform family history searches for you. They are neither staffed nor funded to do that.
   
• District governance is provided by the High Peak Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings once each month.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Chapel-en-le-Frith Poorlaw Union.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1847.

Year	Inhabitants
1851	119
1881	96