ASTON-upon-TRENT, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 6 miles (S. E.) from Derby, containing 552 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £29.15., and iu the patronage of the Rev. Charles Holden. The church is dedicated to All Saints. A grant of a market and, a fair was obtained in 1256, but both have long been discontinued. . The Grand Trunk Navigation joins the river Trent below Shardlow, in this parish; and here are extensive wharfs for corn and Staffordshire pottery. Aston upon Trent is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas, held at .Tutbury every thir.d Ttiesday, for the re-, covery of debts under 40s. There is a small endowment for the education of poor children.