Ashford Middlesex Family History Guide
Ashford an Ancient Parish in Middlesex, originally a chapelry to Staines Ancient Parish, it became a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1859. Ashford was transferred to Surrey in 1965. The ecclesiastical boundaries of Ashford Ancient Parish were altered in 1951 to help create Staines Christ Church Ecclesiastical Parish and also in 1973 to help create Ashford St Hilda Ecclesiastical Parish.
Parish church: St. Michael. The church was rebuilt in 1859 and dedicated to St. Matthew
Parish registers begin: 1699
Nonconformists include: Catholic, Congregational, Wesleyan
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASHFORD, a village and a parish in Staines district, Middlesex. The village stands amid a richly-cultivated tract, near the London, Richmond, and Reading railway, 2 miles E of Staines; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Staines.
The parish includes the western part of Old Hounslow Heath, once the retreat of highwaymen, and the terror of travellers. Acres, 1,378, Real property, £3,586. Pop., 784. Houses, 130. Ashford Common was formerly a field for military reviews, but has now been long enclosed and cultivated. Ashford Lodge, Manor House, and Clock House are handsome seats.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £136. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1859. A Welsh charity school, an edifice in the Tudor style, for 200 children. was founded in 1857.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Ashford, 2 m. S.E. Staines. P. 524
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
ASHFORD, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of SPELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, 3 miles (E.) from Staines, containing 331 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, and in the patronage of the Crown. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831
Places of Worship
St. Matthews (Parish church), Church road
St Hilda (Chapel of Ease), West District road
Church Hall, Stanwell road
Church Mission Room, Ashford Common
Catholic Church (St Michael’s, Feltham road)
Congregational
Wesleyan
Ashford Parish Registers
Ashford Marriages 1696 to 1812
Parish Records
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Schools
The Ashford County School, Church road, secondary day school for boys and girls
The Welsh Girls’ School, near the railway station, later a high class school for girls, belonging to and supported by the Honourable & Loyal Society of Ancient Britons, was originally founded in London in 1714-15. The school was built in 1857 to hold 156 children.
Public Elementary, Council (mixed), Clarendon road, erected in 1900, enlarged in 1914 for 300 children.
Spelthorne Council School (mixed)
Woodthorpe road, Council (mixed & infants, erected in 1909, for 320 children; average attendance (1914), 206.
Public Elementary, Church of England (mixed, erected in 1868, for 230 children, average attendance (1914), 185.
The West London District School, opened in September 1872, for 790 children and included an infirmary for 72 children.
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Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Staines
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Staines
- Hundred: Spelthorne
- Province: Canterbury