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Listings are completely free and you can add your details via the simple is strictly forbidden. form at: http://www.atozguide.org/free-listing Back to website 2 Back to Index ASHFORD A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL SPONSORS INDEX Index ELECTRICIANS CARPET CLEANING SPONSORS Sponsors AKM Electrical Clean & Bright Surrey TW15 3SJ, UK Chertsey, Surrey KT16 8PB, UK 01784 886206 01932 561949 http://www.akm-propertycare.co.uk/ http://www.clean-bright.co.uk/ HistoryLocal HISTORY AKM Electrical - for your local reliable friendly Clean & Bright is a very well established family business electrician . AKM carries out all aspects of domestic since 1975. and commercial installation electrical work, from the addition of a single socket through to complete rewires. The only choice you will need when you want a professional carpet and upholstery cleaning service including leather. Our commitment starts the moment I meet as I do not like to give quotes over the phone, as with our numerous years of experience there are many different A TO Z types of carpets and upholstery with many different A to Z fibres and materials used. GOLF CLUBS PHOTOGRAPHERS Local AdvertsLocal LOCAL FIRMS LOCAL Ashford Manor Golf Club Darren Charles Holloway Photography Ashford Manor Golf Club, Fordbridge Road, Ashford, Smallfield, Surrey RH6 9RS, UK Surrey TW15 3RT, UK 0845 643 2068 01784 424644 http://www.darrencharlesholloway.com/ Useful Numbers http://www.amgc.co.uk/ KEY NUMBERS A wedding is an exceptionally special occasion in your Established as an 18 hole course for over a century and life, the memories of which will live with you forever. currently measuring 6,406 yards, AMGC can boast some My aim is to capture and record the day’s events to of the finest greens in Middlesex, regardless of the ensure the memories stay with you. I consider it a real time of year.With the advantage of age the course has privilege to be invited to record a couples wedding day, matured to offer a quality parkland course to members and I am passionate about what I do. and visitors alike with tree lined fairways and well bunkered approaches to the greens. I am professional photographer based in Surrey, UK. and I cover the South East of England. However, I am With a par of 70 and a Standard Scratch of 71, Ashford always willing to travel to further locations, please Listing Free ADD ENTRY Manor offers the accurate golfer a challenge to play contact me for more details. to their handicap, on a course reputed as one of the quickest drying courses for miles around. The well I am a qualified member of the Master Photographers maintained and drained course practically guarantees Association, the British Institute of Professional all year round play. Photography and the Royal Photographic Society. Back to website 3 Back to Index ASHFORD A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL HISTORY INDEX Index LOOKING BACK - A BRIEF LOCAL HISTORY A fascinating insight into how the area has evolved - (thanks to Wikipedia) it was part of the manor of Kempton in 1086. It rendered (in total): 14s SPONSORS 0d. Throughout the early medieval Sponsors period the place was also referred to as Echelford. A stone bridge was built over the ford in 1789 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. HistoryLocal HISTORY Ashford Common the large area of common land in the south and east of the town was sold (enclosed) in 1809, 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 1902 at the property which was the Manor Farm House A TO Z the actual large manorial estate and A to Z manor house that was held by Solomon Ashford is a suburban town in Ashford, Surrey and for example the Abraham Hart from 1870 to 1882 had, almost entirely in the Surrey current railway services provider uses before 1902 been broken up among the present or past county variously many small owners and all trace of the borough of Spelthorne, but with throughout its stations and trains. manor house became lost. However a small section lying within the the title of lord of the manor was London Borough of Hounslow, A leading gymnastics club, HMP acquired by Scott Freeman in 1890 and Local AdvertsLocal Bronzefield and one of the sites of after passing to another partner of the FIRMS LOCAL England. Mostly residential, Brooklands College are in the town. solicitors Horne, Engall Freeman came Ashford is 13.5 miles (21.7 Ashford Hospital is narrowly within in more recent times to Russell Grant. km) WSW of Charing Cross, Stanwell and began as Ashford’s workhouse. Ashford Common has In 1894, under the Local Government London, forms part of the a parade of shops and is a more Act 1894, Ashford became part of the London commuter belt, with a residential ward that includes part of Staines Rural District of Middlesex. In minor stop on the Waterloo to the Queen Mary Reservoir and all of its 1930 the rural district was abolished Reading Line (which has two related water treatment works, which to join Staines Urban District. In 1965, is contiguous with and subsidiary to the under the London Government Act Useful Numbers branch lines) and has a long town itself. 1963, Middlesex County Council was KEY NUMBERS commercial high street. abolished and the urban district was Bronze Age artifacts have been found in transferred to Surrey. In 1974, under It is centred 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Ashford (at 51.432708N, 0.485174W) the Local Government Act 1972, Staines London Heathrow Airport, to which a giving rise to the name Bronzefield and Urban District was abolished and its portion of its economy relates, including a henge may have been present in that area combined with that of Sunbury- business premises relating to aviation period. The settlement as indicated by on-Thames Urban District to create the and the distribution of air freight – the its name but small assets just after the present-day borough of Spelthorne. main cargo depot being next to an Norman Conquest was part agricultural adjoining village, Stanwell. settlement in Saxon times. For more information, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford,_ Listing Free ADD ENTRY Sometimes referred to as Ashford, Ashford appears on the Middlesex Surrey Middlesex to distinguish it from the Domesday map as Exeforde held by larger town of Ashford, Kent, since 1965 Robert, Count of Mortain. Its Domesday (Photo: “AshfordStMatthews” by when Middlesex County Council was Assets were: 1 plough, meadow for Manfred Heyde) dissolved the town’s wards are officially 1 plough; a separate manor in 1066, Back to website 4 Back to Index ASHFORD A TO Z GUIDE A TO Z DIRECTORY INDEX Index emergency.