AYLTON is a small parish distant 6 miles W. of Ledbury, in Radlow hundred, Much Marcle polling district, Ledbury union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 89; in 1871, 112; inhabited houses, 20; families or separate occupiers, 21; area of parish, 816a. 3r. 35p.; annual rateable value, £1,369. The Right Hon. Earl Somers is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clayey, growing wheat, beans, hops, &c. The living is a rectory in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Froome; value, £124, with 23 acres of glebe; patron, Robert William Dacre Harley, Esq.; rector, Rev. William John Morrish, M.A., Magdalen Hall, Oxford, who was instituted in 1869, and resides at Ledbury. The church is a little plain building with low tower containing one bell. It stands on a mound. The children of this parish attend the school at Little Marcle.