Alston it a hamlet in the parish of Overbury, in Worcestershire, from which it is distant 4 ½ miles south-east, and 5 south-west from Winchcomb, in the hundred of Oswaldslow, Union of Winchcomb. There is a chapel of ease to Overbury. The population, in 1851, was 89. Alston was formerly in Worcestershire; but under the Act of 7 & 8 Victoria, cap. 61, was transferred to Gloucestershire.

Alstone Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822


Alstone – a hamlet and chapelry to the township of Teddington, in the parish of Overbury, hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 7 miles S.E. from Tewkesbury, and 101 from London; containing 18 inhabited houses, isolated in Gloucestershire. Population, 1801, 83 – 1811, 83 – 1821, 79.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.

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