Place Name
After the Gloucestershire village Cold Aston (also known as Aston Blank) near Bourton-on-the-Water. This is one of a number of road names relating to Northwick Park, the family seat of the Lords Northwick, (members of the Rushout family), in Blockley, Gloucestershire. The family also owned the large Northwick Estate in Harrow. Following the death of Sir George Rushout-Bowles, Lord Northwick, in 1887 the properties – but not the title – was passed to his step-grandson Captain Edward George Spencer Churchill. At the time he was still a boy, so it was his trustees who decided to develop the farmland into a superior type of suburb, in the early in the 1920s. After several delays over the viability of the project, the new Northwick Estate began to take shape in 1924 with the construction of a 500 foot circle around the site of a private club called the Palaestra, with roads branching out from it like the spokes of a wheel. Most of the roads were named after villages and farms on Captain Churchill’s Cotswold Estate (Northwick Park). The village itself was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Estone, the name coming from the Old English ēast + tūn meaning eastern farmstead or estate.
