It includes the hamlets of Asthall Leigh, Field Assarts, Stonelands, Worsham and part of Fordwells.

[2] Asthall village is just south of the River Windrush, which also forms the southeastern part of its boundary.

The name Asthall derives from the Old English words ēast 'east' + healh 'corner, nook', attested in the early 11th century as East Heolon.

The west window of the north aisle is in the early Decorated Gothic style of the late 13th century.

[12] St Nicholas' also has a Sanctus bell, which was cast in 1640 by James Keene,[12] who had foundries at Woodstock and Bedford.

[13] St Nicholas' parish is now a member of the Benefice of Burford, Fulbrook, Taynton, Asthall, Swinbrook and Widford.

[14] In the summer of 2007 a hoard of 110 gold angel and half-angel coins was found during building work at Asthall.

[15] The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford acquired the hoard in December 2010, and put the coins on display from March 2011.

In 1916 the architect Charles Bateman altered and enlarged the house for the 2nd Baron Redesdale (of the second creation).

[10] Lord Redesdale's daughters were the six Mitford sisters, of whom Deborah, the youngest, was born at Asthall Manor in 1920.