Aston Cantlow

Aston Cantlow
Lych gate and Old Post Office
Aston Cantlow is located in Warwickshire
Aston Cantlow
Aston Cantlow
Location within Warwickshire
Population437 (2011)
OS grid referenceSP139595
Civil parish
  • Aston Cantlow
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHENLEY-IN-ARDEN
Postcode districtB95
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
List of places
UK
England
Warwickshire
52°14′04″N 1°47′50″W / 52.234372°N 1.797173°W / 52.234372; -1.797173

Aston Cantlow is a village in Warwickshire, England, on the River Alne 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Wilmcote, close to Little Alne, Shelfield, and Newnham.[1] It was the home of Mary Arden, William Shakespeare's mother. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,674, being measured again as 437 at the 2011 Census.[2]

  1. ^ 'Aston Cantlow', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred (1945), pp. 31–42. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56977
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 23 December 2015.