In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Asterton like this:
ASTERTON, a township in Norbury parish, Salop; on Long Mynd hills, 4½ miles SW of Church-Stretton. Pop., 164.
Additional information about this locality is available for Norbury
Asterton through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Asterton has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of South Shropshire. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Asterton and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Asterton in South Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26144
Date accessed: 18th May 2013
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