ASTHALL, a village and a parish in Witney district, Oxford. The village stands on the Windrush river, and on Akeman-street, at the SW end of Wychwood forest, 2¾ miles ESE of Burford, and 5 S of Ascott r. station. It was known to the Saxons as Esthale, and belonged to Roger d'Ivri. The parish includes also the hamlet of Asthall-Leigh. Post Town, Burford, under Faringdon. Acres, 1,180. Real property, £2,386. Pop., 424. Houses, 89. The manor belonged to the Lumleys, the Joneses, and the Fettiplaces; and the manor-house is now a farmhouse. A large barrow, believed to be the sepulchre of some person of note, is on Akeman-street The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £100. Patron, Eton College. The church is ancient; and a new one, at Asthall-Leigh, was recently built There are two small free schools, and charities £25.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))