Aston Le Walls

"ASTON-LE-WALLS, a parish in the hundred of Chipping Warden, in the county of Northampton, 8 miles to the N. of Banbury. Daventry is its post town. It is on the borders of Oxfordshire, in a pleasant wooded valley, along which pass the river Cherwell, and the Oxford canal. Appletree is a hamlet of this parish The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £535, in the patronage of the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. In the church, which is dedicated to St. Leonard, is a monumental brass of the year 1685, and a square font adorned with sculpture. There are charitable endowments which amount to £6 per annum. Aston House, a farmhouse in this parish, was built by the son of Francis Plowden, Comptroller of the Household in the reign of James II. The Roman way to Dorchester, in Oxfordshire, runs through Aston, which has received the addition to its name from a rampart (vallum) on that way."

"APPLETREE, a hamlet in the parish of Aston-le-Walls, hundred of Chipping Warden, in the county of Northampton, 7 miles to the N.E. of Banbury."