The village name Aston, or Eastun, is Anglo-Saxon for Eastern Estate. A Danish chief called Tolf, or Wolf possesed this land in the time of Edward the Confessor He gave the land to The Holy Church Of Alban The Martyr, where he wished to be buried. The Abbot was still the holder of Aston Abbotts when the Domesday Book was written in 1086. After the Dissolution the land passed through several owners until it was sold eventually to Lord Overstone. Upon inheriting the estate his daughter, Lady Wantage, sold off much of the land and the houses to the sitting tenants in 1919. Blocks of Overstone cottages are still to be seen in several places in Aston Abbotts.