2008, Lt Col Terry Hayes, Deputy Commander of the USAF 422nd Air Base Group at RAF Croughton laid a special wreath and read out the names of the US airmen. The men were included in the 2008 Remembrance Service at Helmdon parish church. Geography Astwell is in southwest Northamptonshire. It is on a tributary of the River Tove, northeast of Brackley, and about south of Wappenham. By road, Astwell is northeast of Banbury and southwest of Northampton. It covers about . Astwell Mill is in the northern part of the hamlet on the Helmdon–Wappenham road, north of the castle, along the road west of Astwell Spinney and fish ponds. Notable people Thomas Lovett III (1473–1542), son and heir of Thomas Lovett II, born here, and became High Sheriff of Northamptonshire and King's Escheator. He married Elizabeth Boteler. Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791), born here, was patroness of the Calvinistic "Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion". References External links Hamlets in Northamptonshire West Northamptonshire District