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.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters arrive from Ludlow (by messenger from
Leinthall Starkes) about 8.30 a.m.; despatched thereto at 5 p.m. Ludlow
is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town.
Parish Church (St. Giles').- Rev. George Hollis Clay, M.A., Rector;
A.J.R. Boughton Knight, Esq., Churchwarden.
Carrier to Ludlow.- William Thomas, every Monday and Saturday to
the Globe Inn, Market street, Ludlow, returning about 7 p.m.