Ashton, Herefordshire Explained

Static Image Name:A49, Ashton - geograph.org.uk - 1612391.jpg
Static Image Caption:The A49 in Ashton
Country:England
Label Position:left
Coordinates:52.2761°N -2.7109°W
Official Name:Ashton
Civil Parish:Eye, Moreton and Ashton
Unitary England:Herefordshire
Region:West Midlands
Lieutenancy England:Herefordshire
Constituency Westminster:North Herefordshire
Os Grid Reference:SO5164

Ashton is a village in the Eye, Moreton and Ashton civil parish of Herefordshire, England, and is 3miles north from Leominster, 15miles north from the city and county town of Hereford, and in the catchment area of the River Lugg. The village is on the A49 road; to the north is Brimfield. Bordering the village to the south-west is Berrington Hall.

Recorded in the Domesday Book, Ashton was in the hundred of Leominster. In the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland of 1868 it was listed as in the hundred of Wolphy.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: EYE, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868 . GENUKI . 2 June 2012.