[4] It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Estone, the name coming from the Old English ēast + tūn meaning "eastern farmstead or estate".

[7][8] It is within the constituency of North Cotswolds,[9] represented in parliament by Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.

Cold Aston is in the county of Gloucestershire and lies within the Cotswolds, a range of hills designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Nearby villages include Turkdean, Notgrove, Clapton, Naunton and Lower Slaughter.

It is a largely Norman building,[11] though its walls incorporate Saxon stonework and the original church on this site may have been built in around AD 904.

[12] In the 1970s a leading authority commented that "all is evidently the work of the best Cotswold masons, and is the fifteenth-century aggrandizement of a Norman church".