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A once familiar scene, sheep are being driven to Ashford Market.

Ashford is a bustling modern town that developed with the railway, but it is also mentioned in Domesday.

Although described in this 1950s photograph as 'The Mill', this sturdy 18th-century cottage at picturesque Ashford in the Water, near Bakewell, looks more like a farmhouse, with its barn and stables on

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

The pump at Ashford, on the left, is the site of one of the village's six well-dressings, held annually in early June.

East of Ashford, and now subsumed by it, the little village of Willesborough possesses two landmark structures.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

East of Ashford, and now subsumed by it, the little village of Willesborough possesses two landmark structures.

The school was built in the 1880s, and is now the Ashford North Stone.

A farm horse is led to the river Wye in Ashford for light refreshment after a day's work in the fields.

A bustling agricultural town and a centre of communications, Ashford was already undergoing a process of extensive and rapid change by the 1950s.

Ashford, situated in the south-west corner of the county, takes its name from an ancient river crossing, the Exeford of the Domesday Book.

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.

Around Ashford & Folkestone

However, the white smock windmill, built in 1869 by the Ashford millwright J Hill, still rises over the village roofs, and is of course now preserved.

Standing on a steep hillside north-west of Ashford, and with commanding views of the Weald, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family.

This shows how comparatively small Ashford was a century ago. Will growth on a similar scale take place over the next hundred years?

Next door, behind the clock, are the Ashford Co-op Society stores, with the Westminster Bank beyond. The white building (centre right) is Alfred Olby, a builders' merchant's.

In the distance is Ashford House, the former King's Head Inn.

Beyond the houses, across the fields, the roofs of Ashford can be seen.

Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby. Here we see a group of picturesque old weatherboarded farm buildings.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

East of Ashford, and now subsumed by it, the little village of Willesborough possesses two landmark structures.

Today, the village and its Tudor buildings is one of Kent's largest and busiest on the A20 road to Maidstone and Ashford.