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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire

ASTON-ROWANT, a parish in the hundred of LEWKNOR, county of OXFORD, 3½ miles (S.E.) from Tetsworth, containing, with the liberties of Chalford and Kingston-Blount, 870 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Stokenchurch annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £16. 18. 11., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Near the close of the seventeenth century, a large Roman vessel, containing five smaller ones, was discovered in Kingston field, within this parish, at the distance of about a furlong from the Iknield-street.