ASLACTON, a township in the parish of WHATTON, northern division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM, 2 miles (E. by N.) from Bingham, containing 273 inhabitants. It is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40*. This was the birthplace of Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, who was burnt at Oxford in 1555, a martyr to his religious tenets.