Asthall

Asthall

Asthal, or Asthall, is a village and civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about six miles west of Witney. The village is on the River Windrush, and had a population of 282 according to the 2001 census.

Notable historic residents of Asthall include the Mitford family, known for their six dynamic daughters, four of which wrote best-selling books. Nancy was a successful novelist whose work included "Love in a Cold Climate"; Unity was a close friend of Hitler; Diana married Oswald Mosley, the head of British Fascism; and Jessica was a committed communist, who went on to do important civil rights work in the United States, and wrote "The American Way of Death", an exposé of the American funeral industry.

ee also

*Asthall Manor, childhood home of the Mitford sisters


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