Aston-sub-Edge

Aston-sub-Edge
St Andrew's church
Aston-sub-Edge is located in Gloucestershire
Aston-sub-Edge
Aston-sub-Edge
Location within Gloucestershire
Population107 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSP142411
Civil parish
  • Weston Subedge
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHIPPING CAMPDEN
Postcode districtGL55 6
Dialling code01386
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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England
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52°04′23″N 1°48′04″W / 52.073°N 1.801°W / 52.073; -1.801

Aston Subedge (also written Aston-sub-Edge) is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, close by the border with Worcestershire (to the west). According to the 2001 census the population was 55, increasing to 107 at the 2011 census.[2] The village is about 8 miles east of Evesham, and near the village of Weston-sub-Edge.

The church of St Andrew was built in 1797 by Thomas Johnson of Warwick.

Christopher Savage, Lord of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, and an Esquire of the Body of King Henry VIII, had livery of the manor of Aston-sub-Edge on 14 May 1521,[3] which he had inherited from his father, Sir Christopher Savage, Knt., (who fell at the Battle of Flodden in 1513) who had acquired it by his marriage to Anne, daughter of Sir John Stanley, Knt., of Elford, Staffordshire (d. Nov 1508)[4]

Dover's Hill lies about 1 mile (2 km) to the south of Aston Subedge. In the 1630s Endymion Porter, a courtier and diplomat who lived at Aston-sub-Edge,[5] brought members of the court to see the Cotswold Olympics which were held on Dover's Hill.

References

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  3. ^ Calendar of State Papers (Henry VIII)
  4. ^ Plantagenet Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.284 and 639.
  5. ^ Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PRO, Will of John Savage of Edgiock, &c., proved 11 Feb 1632, mentions.
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