Description
Aston-Abbots, a small village and a parish in Bucks, 3 1/2 miles NW of Marston Gate station on the London and North-Western railway, 5 1/2 NNE of Aylesbury, and 6 SW of Leighton Buzzard. Post town, Aylesbury; money order office, Wingrave; telegraph office, Wing. Acreage, 2198; population, 281. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £124. Patron, Baroness Wantage. The church is a small structure of stone of the Decorated period. There are also Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Sir James Ross, the arctic explorer, died here in 1862, and is buried in the churchyard.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
