| White Ladies Aston | |
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  White Ladies Aston Location within Worcestershire | |
| OS grid reference | SO849548 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WORCESTER |
| Postcode district | WR7 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
White Ladies Aston is a village in the Wychavon local government district of Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, and also lends its name to the civil parish in which the village is located. The village is located to the east of the A44 which started as a Saltway linking Droitwich to Oxford. To the south is Pershore and five miles west is Worcester. The parish is bound to the east by the Bow Brook. The parish, according to the 2011 census, has 87 households with 220 residents.[1]
There is evidence that people at least passed through the area during the Neolithic or early Bronze Age.[2] As a village it has existed since Roman times with the parish boundaries being formed during the Anglo-Saxon period and have remain until today.[3] The Domesday Book mentions local land owners notably the Bishop of Worcester who granted Aston Manor to the Cistercian Nuns in 1255. The nuns were referred to as the "White Ladies" which combined with the word "Aston", derived from the Anglo-Saxon term for "East Farm", forming the name of "White Ladies Aston".[4]
The parish Church of England church is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
- ^ "2011 Census – Office for National Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ White Ladies Aston Big Dig: What did we find?, retrieved 16 October 2022
- ^ Hooke, Della. (1990). Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon charter bounds. Sawyer, P. H. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-276-7. OCLC 21762845.
- ^ The Victoria history of the county of Worcester. Willis Bund, J. W. (John William), 1843–1928., Doubleday, H. Arthur (Herbert Arthur), 1867–1941., Page, William, 1861–1934. Folkestone, Eng.: Published for the University of London, Institute of Historical Research by Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1971. ISBN 0-7129-0479-4. OCLC 49694121.
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