Before the Norman Conquest of 1066 the manor of Aston Clinton was held by Wlwen who was a ‘man’ of King Edward. Slightly confusing as it seems that Wlwen was a woman’s name. By 1086 the village was known as Estone and consisted of 28 villagers, 4 smallholders, 13 slaves and 300 pigs. At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor was held by Edward de Salisbury, later to be a standard bearer of Henry I at the battle of Brenville in 1100. By the end of the twelfth century the manor belonged to the family of Clinton from hence came the latter part of the name (the first part of the name Aston means East farm).

Later Lords of the Manor include Sir Anthony de Rothschild who, in the mid nineteenth century, had a village school built by private patronage.