Towns & Villages in Herts

Ashwell

Adjacent Parishes:  Bygrave, Caldecote, Dunton (Beds), Eyeworth (Beds), Guilden Morden (Cambs), Hinxworth, Kelshall, Newnham, Sandon, Steeple Morden (Cambs), Wallington

It is in Odsey Hundred

It is in the Royston  Union

Postcard of Ashwell Church, undated and no publisher information but almost certainly early 20th century >>>>

 
A glimpse of Ashwell, Herts. Postcard posted in 1905

Ashwell Museum in 1952

Book: I was born in the High Street, wasn't I - Ashwell remembered fifty years ago

Book: Snippets of Ashwell's History - reprinted historical notes from a local monthly newsletter

Old Cottages, Ashwell - posted 1905

Book: A Different World

High Street, Ashwell copyright Adkins Series circa 1910 The Public House is the Bulls Head Kelly's Hertfordshire Directory for 1908 shows that Miss Fanny Adkins was a draper & grocer, while Arthur Westerman was publican at the Bull's Head and also a jobmaster.

High Street, Ashwell Bedwell Series Posted 1903 The Bull's Head sign can be seen in the distance

Lime Kiln Lane, Ashwell (now Kingsland Way) Published by J, H Christy & Son, High Street, Ashwell in Vulcan Series - Posted 1922 In 1912 & 1922 J. H. Christy & Son were listed as grocers & Drapers, while Miss Ellen M. Christy was sub-postmistress, (Kelly's Directory)

Book: Tudor Churchwardens' Accounts

Ashwell Lockup - see Ashwell Education Services

Web Site: Ashwell Education Services - essential information for anyone with ancestors who lived in the village.

Web site: There is a Yahoo Geneology Group

Ashwell Hockey Team from postcard posted in 1910 (from ebay auction)

Ashwell Spring Robert H Clark card posted in 1907 Thirty springs which rise in the village form the head of the river Cam or Granta. Large beds of coprolites have been discovered and worked out on both sides of the river.  (Kelly's Directory 1912)

See also Vital Records

If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.

Last updated September 2007