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ASTON-UPON-TRENT, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"ASTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, in the county of Derby, 6 miles to the S.E. of Derby, its post town. It is situated on the northern side of the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal, which runs nearly parallel with the river. Shardlow is a chapelry, and Far or Great Wilne a township, of this parish Aston had formerly the rank of a market town.

The principal business of the place is the corn trade. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the potteries. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value, with the curacy of Shardlow annexed to it, of £1,030, in the patronage of E. A. Holden, Esq. In the church, which is dedicated to All Saints, are several monuments to the Holdens and Shuttleworths. There are charitable endowments amounting to £22 per annum. The principal residences are Aston Hall, the seat of the Holdens, and Aston Lodge."

"FAR WILNE, a township in the parish of Aston-upon-Trent, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Derby."

"GREAT WILNE, (or Far Wilne) a township in the parish of Aston-upon-Trent, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, in the county of Derby, adjoining the parish of Wilne."

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

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