ASTON-ROWANT, a parish in the hundred of
LEWKNOR, county of OXFORD, 5 miles (S. E.) from
Tetsworth, containing, with the liberties of Chalford
and Kingston-Blount, .870 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Stokenchurch
annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
rated in the king's books at £16. 18. 11., and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul. Near the close of the seventeenth
century, a large Roman vessel, containing five
smaller ones, was discovered in Kingston field, within
this parish, at the distance of about a furlong from the
Iknield-street.