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Around Ashford & Folkestone

This photograph was taken a century ago, and a world away from the same road today, which seems at times like a public motor-racing circuit - it is now part of the Ashford ring road.

The large attractive Woolpack Inn is very popular with those en route between Ashford and Folkestone, though it is possibly less busy than it was years ago - the M20 has taken most of the through traffic

Around Ashford & Folkestone

Perhaps it will carry a passenger who had just arrived off one of the steam trains to pass through this attractive village on its way to Ashford.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

The red-brick village school with its bell-tower and half-tiled gables was built on the main road between Ashford and Royal Tunbridge Wells during the late 19th century, adjoining the churchyard of Holy

Sad to say, Kennington is not very rural now; it has become ever more just a suburb of Ashford. In 1895 there were brick and tile works in the village.

Up the road on the right beyond the pub now stand Crouch's garage, the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Kent House and the Ashford bowling alley.

Alderholt Mill is situated on a tributary of the Ashford Water. We are looking northwards to the junction of lanes leading to Bullhill (left) and Alderholt Bridge in the other direction.

The post office sat right in the corner of the crossroads, where a signpost directed motorists to the marshes, Woodchurch or Ashford. Today this village has several new housing developments.

By 1894, the smoke and fog of London eventually prompted the Trustees to move their residents to Ashford, and these new buildings were opened in March 1895 - their occupants arrived by train from Waterloo

The former King's Head in the distance was Ashford's the furnisher's from c1850 until 1982.

Here we see the Parish Church as we look from the High Street through Middle Row, part of the 'old town' of Ashford.

Situated two and a half miles from Ashford church, Swinford takes its name from a ford for swine. The manor house dates back to the 13th century, and formed part of a large estate.

Although only just outside Ashford, Great Chart, along with its neighbour Little Chart, retains its traditional village character.

Ashford Cottage is opposite (left), and Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage are below it. James Foss, who died in 1902, bequeathed £200 towards the upkeep of the parish church.

Around Ashford & Folkestone

Here you could buy ornaments made of Blue John, Ashford Black Marble and Derbyshire Spar - locally mined stones which were worked in the Petrifaction and Spar shops.

If we return briefly to the beginning of the 19th century, Sutton again made history when the body of Mary Ashford, aged 20, was found brutally murdered - drowned in a marl-pit in Penns Lane.