Parishes of
the Union

• Aston Botterell
• Bayton
• Cleobury Mortimer
• Coreley
• Farlow
• Highley
• Hopton Wafers
• Kinlet
• Loughton
• Mamble
• Milson
• Neen Savage
• Neen Sollars
• Rock
• Silvington
• Stottesdon
• Wheathill
• Woodhouse



~ Paupers of the Cleobury Mortimer Union ~

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ASTON BOTTERELL

Sitting between the River Rea to the east and Brown Clee hill to the west, it lies to the north west of Cleobruy Mortimer. Its name comes from OE for ‘east town’ and Thomas Botterell, Lord of the Manor in the mid-thirteenth century. It is mentioned in Domesday as ‘Aston’ (fourteen households, one hide). It was granted a market charter in 1264 but never developed and today is made up of isolated farms which may mark the sites of mediaeval hamlets. The eighteenth-nineteenth century parish was much larger than today’s civil parish, as it included Norton and Charlcotte. Lying on the Old Red Sandstone, it provides good farming conditions and has always relied on agriculture. During the 18C water-powered industry was important, with corn-mills, one of which became a blast furnace and a paper mill – all gone by the mid-nineteenth century – with a few brickyards around that time.