ASTON-TIRROLD, a parish in the hundred of
MORETON, county of BERKS, 3 miles (S. W. by W.)
from Wallingford, containing 355 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£10. 12.11., and in the patronage of the President and
Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to St. Michael. Bishop Gibson supposed
this to be the place called in the Saxon Chronicle Aescesdune,
where Ethelred I. and his brother Alfred
defeated the Danes, in 871; but Gough, with greater
probability, considers this battle to have been fought
at Ashdown Park, near East Ilsley. There is a small
endowment for the instruction of poor children.