Description
Ashton, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, on the Grand Junction Canal, near Salcey Forest and the Blisworth tunnel, 1 1/2 mile SSE of Roade station on the L.&N.W.R., and 7 S of Northampton, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Roade. Acreage, 1317; population, 255. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of stone in mixed styles. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
