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Ashford’s history is based on its location between Dover and London and this looks to be important in the future with the international station and the high speed train service from London to Europe through the Channel Tunnel. There are different views as to how the name Ashford came about. Records show that for several centuries the settlement or town in Ashford was known as "Essetesford". Some people believe that "Essetesford" stands for "ash trees growing near a ford", while others suggest that it meant "a ford over the river Eshe or Eshet", which was the old name for the tributary of the River Stour which rises at Lenham. No one can be quite sure when people first settled in the Ashford area. Roman remains have been found at Westhawk, and a road, built to transport iron ore from the Weald of Kent to the north Kent Coast, went through Ashford, following what is now Kingsnorth Road and Beaver Road in South Ashford and Station Road and Wellesley Road through to Kennington. It is believed that Ashford’s origins lay in the 1800’s when England was invaded by the Danes in 893. At this there were settlements at Great Chart and Appledore, and as the Danes raided these settlements the people fled to the forests for safety. It is thought that many of the survivors settled either in nearby forest or in the "Royal Ville of Wye". As a reward for their services in battle a group of people are thought to have settled on land in what is now Ashford, given to them by the Saxon Lord. Before the Norman invasion, it is known that part of Ashford was owned by St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury, the other part belonged to King Edward the Confessor and some belonged to Earl Godwin, the father of King Harold. After the Conquest, St Augustine’s kept its land, but the rest was given to Hugh de Montfort, one of the Conqueror’s commanders, as a reward for his services in battle. The Doomsday Book, which was made by William the Conqueror in 1086 to assess the extent of the land and resources being owned in England at the time, and the extent of the taxes he could raise, states that Ashford has a church and two mills. By 1600 Ashford was well established as an important and thriving market town. Ashford was aided in this by its location, with roads to the port of Faversham and to Canterbury, Hythe, Romney Marsh and the Weald. Just as important was the number of large estates in the district owned by the nobility.

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