Ashford
Ashford is a town in Kent on the River Great Stour at the southern or scarp edge of the North Downs in the South East of England. In 2021, it was home to 83,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoad’s Wood and St Francis.
Hoad’s Wood
Forest
Photo: Geoff Gartside, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoad's Wood is an 80.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Ashford in Kent. Natural England described the woodland thus: "This site is a good example of a pedunculate oak-hornbeam woodland on Wealden Clay mainly hornbeam coppice-with-standards and oakhazel woodland with some sweet chestnut coppice.
Godinton House
Photo: N.Toke.C, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Godinton House is a stately home in the parish of Great Chart, owned by a non-profit-making trust. It is 2 miles north-west of the centre of the town of Ashford, Kent, UK. Godinton House is situated 2½ miles northeast of Ashford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Chart and Singleton.
Great Chart
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Chart is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Chart with Singleton, in the Ashford borough of Kent, England. The parish is split between the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton neighbourhood on the western outskirts of Ashford.
Singleton
Suburb
Singleton is a suburb of Ashford in Kent, South East England, first developed in the 1980s. Although Singleton forms a contiguous urban area with the large town of Ashford to its east, it is formally a part of Great Chart with Singleton civil parish.
Ashford
- Type: Locality with 126,000 residents
- Also known as: “Ashford District”
- Location: Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1293° or 51° 7′ 46″ northLongitude
0.8115° or 0° 48′ 41″ eastPopulation
126,000Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9F324RH6+PHGeoNames ID
7290570
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