Aston, Warwickshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Aston. You may be able to find further references to Aston in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Aston parish and railway station Bartholomew
ASTON a parish and a district Imperial
Aston Manor parliamentary borough Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Aston.

Place Type of entry Source
Ashted ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
ASHTED a chapelry Imperial
Aston Brook ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Bordesley district Bartholomew
BORDESLEY a hamlet Imperial
BROMWICH (Castle) a chapelry Imperial
Bromwich, Little hamlet Bartholomew
BROMWICH (Little) a hamlet Imperial
Duddeston 2 ecclesiastical districts Bartholomew
DUDDESTON-CUM-NECHELLS a hamlet, a sub-district, and two chapelries Imperial
Little Bromwich hamlet Bartholomew
Lozells ecclesiastical districts Bartholomew
LOZELLS a chapelry Imperial
Nechells ecclesiastical districts Bartholomew
NUTHURST, or Nuttersheath a hamlet Imperial
Saltley small town with railway station Bartholomew
SALTLEY a village and a chapelry Imperial
Small Heath ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Sparkbrook ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
SPARKBROOK a chapelry Imperial
Ward End ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
WARD-END a chapelry Imperial
WASHWOOD a hamlet Imperial
WATER-ORTON a chapelry Imperial
Witton village with railway station Bartholomew
WITTON a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Aston Brook 0 2
Lozells 0 2
Bloomsbury 0 2
Nechells 0 1
Birchfield 0 2
Ashted 0 2
Duddeston 0 1
Hockley 0 2
Birmingham 89 4
Witton 0 2
Deritend 1 2
Perry 0 1
Gravelly Hill 0 2
Handsworth 0 2
Washwood Heath 0 2
Saltley 0 2
Bordesley 0 2
Erdington 0 2
Ladywood 0 2
Ward End 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Aston. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
ASTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ASTON MANOR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.