ASTON (STEEPLE), a parish in the hundred of
WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 4 miles (S. by E.) from
Deddington, containing, with the township of Middle
Aston, 515 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's
books at £16. 2. 85., and in the patronage of the Principal
and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. Peter. The petty sessions
for the division are held here. A school for the education
of poor children is endowed with about £ 17 per
annum. A tesselated pavement was discovered in the
vicinity, in the sixteenth century.