Aston-Upthorpe, a parish in Berks, 3 miles E of Upton station on the Didcot and Southampton railway, and 4 SW of Wallingford, which is the post town and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1322; population, 156. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Upton, in the diocese of Oxford; value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is ancient. This is said to be the site of the battle of Escendum in 871, when Ethelred and Alfred routed the Danes.
