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Chapelry England. Middlesex, England Genealogy. Parish registers: ; For more records see Staines. Bishop's Transcripts: ; ; Ashford is a town and suburb of London located almost entirely in the Surrey borough of Spelthorne , but with a small section lying within the London Borough of Hounslow , England. It is centred 2.
More usually referred to as Ashford, Middlesex [n 2] to distinguish it from the larger town of Ashford, Kent , since when Middlesex County Council was dissolved the town's wards are officially in Ashford, Surrey and for example the current railway services provider uses the present or past county variously throughout its stations and trains.
Ashford Hospital is narrowly within Stanwell and began as Ashford's workhouse. Ashford Common has a parade of shops and is a more residential ward that includes part of the Queen Mary Reservoir and all of its related water treatment works, which is contiguous with and subsidiary to the town itself.
Ashford consists of relatively low density low and medium rise buildings, none of them being high rise. Ashford is defined along its northern edge by a dual carriageway and extends no more than m beyond another parallel to the southern boundary. It centrally includes a short section of another and has a driving test centre. Junctions of the UK's motorway network are 3. On two of the eight chief compass points the town is buffered by green space which covers just over 2.
Ashford is in the almost flat alluvial plain formed by the historic courses of the River Thames [2] on fairly fertile but gravelly soil [3] in centuries past covered by deciduous forest for wood gathering, with clearings of meadow for pasture and to a lesser extent arable farming to supply the London market; sheep grazing continues today around the reservoirs.
In common with western fringes of Greater London, gravel commences often within a metre of the surface which has led to 20th century gravel extraction, [2] [n 3] which has formed the lakes to the north of the railway line. The extreme west is Shortwood Common , partly converted to a recreation ground, Ashford Park School, a cemetery.
North of this is the pair of Staines Reservoirs , the other green buffer is The Princes Club, Bedfont Lakes , spanning the northeast border; these areas constitute Metropolitan Green Belt buffers to the country's largest city.
The area includes postally much of Queen Mary Reservoir which covered most of the parish to the south of Littleton and almost none of historic Ashford named after the wife of George V , Mary of Teck. A few parks such as the Ashford Reservoirs or Spelthorne Park are remnants of Ashford Common which give the eastern part of the town a reminder of its past status as a grazing common ; these include recreation grounds such as Thames Water -sponsored Spelthorne Sports Club and the BP recreation ground.
The other road with this status is the western half of Challenge Road, which has only business addresses. Bronze Age artefacts have been found in Ashford at Its Domesday Assets were: 1 plough, meadow for 1 plough; a separate manor in , it was part of the manor of Kempton in It rendered in total : 14s 0d. A stone bridge was built over the ford in by the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust, part of which is used as the rather scenic Fordbridge roundabout with its large weeping willow trees at the centre.
Ashford Common the large area of common land in the south and east of the town was sold enclosed in , before which this was a favourite ground with George III for the forces to put on military displays. While Ashford Manor Golf Club was established in at the property which was the Manor Farm House [11] the actual large manorial estate and manor house that was held by Solomon Abraham Hart from to [n 4] had, before been broken up among many small owners and all trace of the manor house became lost.
Ashford's housing stock is modern, with chiefly a mixture of detached and semi-detached housing built between and Staines: staines sjsmithestateagents.
The area is a suburban town that is predominantly located in Spelthorne borough in Surrey, but with some parts of it also found in the London borough of Hounslow. This gives you an idea of its proximity to the heart of London which makes it an appealing location for commuters not wanting to pay the inflated inner-city property prices.
The residential town lies less than 14 miles from Charing Cross, considered to be the heart of London for commuting purposes and Ashford is well known for being part of the London commuter belt. With so many people working in London or looking to be nearby for the entertainment and tourist options, this is an area that ticks a lot of boxes. It was formerly a possession of Westminster Abbey, and afterwards a part of the honour of Hampton.
Before the lands were enclosed, reviews were frequently held here. The church which is dedicated to St. Matthew, was erected in
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