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Ashton Keynes is a village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England which borders with Gloucestershire. The village is about south of Cirencester and west of Cricklade. At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 1,400.〔 The village lies within the Cotswold Water Park and is the only settlement substantially on both sides of the River Thames, which has many channels here, centred from its source at Thames Head. The parish includes the hamlet of North End. ==History== The village was known as ''Aesctun'' in 800 AD, appeared in the Domesday book within Cricklade hundred as ''Essitone'' in 1086, and changed its name ten times in the next 800 years until its present name was recorded. A large Romano-British settlement was on the edge of the present-day village; it was excavated in the late 1980s in advance of extensive gravel extraction. Ashton Keynes Castle (or Hall's Close) was a 12th-century ringwork, just north of the village. Ashton House was built in the 18th century and is Grade II listed. In 1851 in the 35 homes in Gosditch were living a tailor, saddler, tallow chandler, stonemason, many glove makers and a cobbler. The Horse and Jockey (now closed) was a "scrumpy house", selling cider made from the apples from the orchards in the village. This was the social centre of the community where dominoes were laid and gossip exchanged, and the hard times debated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashton Keynes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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