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The village name 'Aston' is a common one in England, and is Anglo Saxon for Eastern Estate. The suffix 'Abbotts' refers to the ancient abbey in the village, which until the dissolution of the monasteries was the country home of the abbotts of St Albans in Hertfordshire. The present abbey was largely rebuilt in the Nineteenth century.
The hamlet of Burston sits within this parish.
During the Second World War Dr Edvard Benes, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia, stayed at the abbey in Aston Abbotts. His government stayed in nearby WingraveWingrave is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about four miles north east of Aylesbury, three miles south west of Wing. The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Wiwa's grove'. It was recorded in the D.