Description
Aston-upon-Trent, a parish and a large village in Derbyshire, on the verge of the county, near the Grand Trunk Canal, and the river Trent, 1 mile from Weston-on-Trent station on the M.R., and 6 miles SE by S of Derby, under which it has a post office; nearest money order and telegraph office, Shardlow and Weston (R.S.) Acreage, 1899; population, 548. There are large gypsum pits here. Aston Hall is the seat of the Holdens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £960 with residence. The church, which is ancient, was restored in 1848, 1863, and 1873, and contains numerous mural tablets to the Shuttleworth and Holden families, and a beautiful reredos and pulpit, &c. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
