Aston by Wrenbury
Aston is a village in the civil parish of Newhall in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
The village should not be confused with several other villages named Aston in Cheshire, which include Aston juxta Mondrum, Aston by Budworth and Aston, Vale Royal.
History
The village features in the Domesday Book as Estune, meaning eastern manor, settlement or farmstead.Geography and transport
Aston lies between the larger villages of Wrenbury and Audlem, with Nantwich being 4¼ miles to the north east. The main part of the village is located on Wrenbury Road north west of the A530; the southern part lies along Sheppenhall Lane south of the A530. The Cheshire Cycleway and South Cheshire Way long-distance path run through the village, and the Welsh Marches railway line runs ½ mile to the north west.Landmarks
Features of interest include the red-brick St Andrew's Methodist Church, which has an associated Grade II listed lychgate and war memorial dating from around 1919 leading to a small cemetery. Aston House Farm is a Grade II listed, black-and-white timber farmhouse, dating from 1662. The village also has a Grade II listed red telephone box, an example of the 1935 K6 style designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.Economy
It had a Unigate Creamery in the 1960s.Lymeswold cheese was developed by Dairy Crest at Crudgington, and made at a site on the A530 from around 1984. But the scale of production was too much, and the product was not of the right standard, and by 1992 production ended.
Bakkavör now make most garlic baguettes in the UK, at the former Lymeswold site.
Aston Mill is an animal feed mill run by H J Lea Oakes Ltd, one of the few large industrial enterprises in this predominantly agricultural area.