[1] The suffix "Abbotts" refers to the former abbey in the village, which until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century was the country home of the abbots of St Albans in Hertfordshire.

[2] The Church of England parish church of St James the Great has a late 15th or early 16th century Perpendicular Gothic[3] west tower, but the rest of the building was demolished in 1865 and replaced with a new nave and chancel designed by the Oxford Diocesan Architect G.E.

In the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Dr Edvard Beneš, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia, stayed at The Abbey in Aston Abbotts.

President Beneš gave a bus shelter to the villages of Aston Abbotts and Wingrave in 1944.

The nearest secondary school and doctors surgery are 2 miles north east of Aston Abbotts in the village of Wing.