ASTON, or PIPE ASTON, is a small parish distant 4 miles S.W. by W. of Ludlow, and 14 N.W. of Leominster; is in Wigmore hundred, petty sessional division, and polling district, Ludlow union and county court district. The population in 1861 was 34; in 1871, 35; inhabited houses, 9; families or separate occupiers, 9; area of parish, 920 acres; annual rateable value, £633. Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton Knight, Esq., of Downton castle, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey; chief produce, wheat, barley, oats, and roots. In this parish is an eminence called High Vinealls, from the summit of which is obtained a complete panoramic view, including the Brecon, Radnor, Cardigan, and Montgomery hills. The church of St. Giles is remarkable for its diminutive size. The tympanum of the Norman north doorway is a very fine piece of work, well worthy the visit of the ecclesiologist. The earliest register is dated 1692. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford, archdeaconry of Salop, and Clun rural deanery; annual value, £51, with 43 acres of glebe; patron, A. J. R. Boughton Knight, Esq.; rector, Rev. George Hollis Clay, M.A., of Clare College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1872, and is also vicar of Leinthall Starkes, and honorary secretary to the Hereford Diocesan Church Building Society.