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ASTON MANOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASTON
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  , a municipal and
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parliamentary borough of
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Warwickshire,England, adjoining
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Birmingham on the north-east . Pop . (1901) 77,326 . There are extensive manufactures, including those of motors and cycles with their accessories, also paper-mills, breweries, &c., and the population is largely
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industrial . Aston Hall, erected by
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Sir Thomas Holte in 1618-1635, is an admirable architectural example of its period, built of red brick . It stands in a large park, the whole
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property being acquired by the corporation of Birmingham in 1864, when the mansion became a museum and
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art gallery . It contains the panelling of a
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room from the house of Edmund
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Hector, which formerly stood in Old Square, Birmingham; where Dr
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Samuel Johnson was a frequent visitor . Aston
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Lower Grounds, adjoining the park, contain an assembly hall, and the playing field of the Aston
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Villa
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Football Club, where the more important games are witnessed by many thousands of spectators . Aston
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Manor was incorporated in 1903 . The parliamentary borough returns one member . The corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors,
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Area, 96o acres .

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