Ashford

Ashford is a town in 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.
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  • Type: Town with 58,900 residents
  • Description: town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England
  • Also known as: “Ashford, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ashford International railway station and Godinton House.

Railway station
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is a National Rail station in the town of Ashford, Kent, England. It connects several railway lines, including High Speed 1 and the South Eastern Main Line.

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is a stately home in the , owned by a non-profit-making trust. It is 2 miles north-west of the centre of the town of Ashford, Kent, UK.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kennington and Willesborough.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Ashford and civil parish in , England. It is about a mile northeast of the town centre and north of the M20 motorway, and contains the 13th-century church, St Mary's.

Suburb
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is a residential suburb, on the eastern side of Ashford, in the county of , England.

Village
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the Ashford borough of , England. The parish is split between the ancient village of and the modern Singleton neighbourhood on the western outskirts of Ashford.

Ashford

Latitude
51.1486° or 51° 8′ 55″ north
Longitude
0.8723° or 0° 52′ 20″ east
Population
58,900
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
IATA airport code
QDH
United Nations Location Code
GB ASD
Open location code
9F324VXC+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26728382
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656955
Wiki­data ID
Q725261
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ashford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أشفورد (كنت)”
  • Arabic: “أشفورد”
  • Armenian: “Էշֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Ashford”
  • Basque: “Ashford”
  • Belarusian: “Ашфард”
  • Belarusian: “Эшфард”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাশফোর্ড, কেন্ট”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашфорд”
  • Catalan: “Ashford”
  • Cebuano: “Ashford (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ashford”
  • Chinese: “阿什福德”
  • Czech: “Ashford”
  • Danish: “Ashford”
  • Dutch: “Ashford (Kent)”
  • Dutch: “Ashford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اشفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Ashford”
  • Finnish: “Ashford”
  • French: “Ashford”
  • German: “Ashford”
  • Greek: “Άσφορντ”
  • Hebrew: “אשפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Ashford”
  • Irish: “Ashford”
  • Italian: “Ashford”
  • Japanese: “アシュフォード (ケント)”
  • Japanese: “アシュフォード (ケント州)”
  • Japanese: “アシュフォード”
  • Japanese: “アッシュフォード”
  • Korean: “애슈퍼드”
  • Korean: “애시퍼드 (켄트주)”
  • Korean: “애시퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Ashford”
  • Latvian: “Ešforda (Kenta)”
  • Latvian: “Ešforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašfordas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ashford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashford i Kent”
  • Norwegian: “Ashford”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ashford”
  • Persian: “اشفورد، کنت”
  • Polish: “Ashford”
  • Portuguese: “Ashford (Kent)”
  • Portuguese: “Ashford, Kent”
  • Portuguese: “Ashford”
  • Romanian: “Ashford, Kent”
  • Romanian: “Ashford”
  • Russian: “Ашфорд”
  • Russian: “Эшфорд”
  • Serbian: “Ashford”
  • Serbian: “Ешфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ashford, Kent”
  • Silesian: “Ashford”
  • Slovak: “Ashford”
  • Slovenian: “Ashford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اشفورد، کنت”
  • Spanish: “Ashford (Kent)”
  • Spanish: “Ashford”
  • Swedish: “Ashford”
  • Tatar: “Әшфорд”
  • Ukrainian: “Ешфорд”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashford”
  • Volapük: “Ashford (Kent)”
  • Volapük: “Ashford”
  • Welsh: “Ashford, Caint”
  • Welsh: “Ashford, Kent”
  • Welsh: “Ashford”
  • “Ashford”

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