ASHCHURCH, a parish in the lower division of
the hundred of TEWKESBURY, county of GLOUCESTER,
2 miles (B. N. E.) from Tewkesbury, comprising
the tythings of Aston upon Carron, Fiddington with
Natton, Northway with Newton, and Pamington, and
containing 64,3 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. William
Hopton. The church consists of a nave, chancel, and
north aisle, with a tower at the west end, chiefly displaying
the later English style, but having on the south
side a Norman porch. The Carrant, a stream tributary
to the Avon, flows through the parish, also a branch of
the Cheltenham spring.