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7 unusual facts about Ashfield


Alexander Huie

He married Annie Bertha Lark, née Bartlett, a Maltese-born widow, on 1 October 1921 in a Methodist ceremony at Ashfield, where they settled; Annie would predecease him in 1948.

Ashfield, Massachusetts

Ashfield is the birthplace of prominent director Cecil B. DeMille (whose parents were vacationing in the town at the time), Alvan Clark, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope maker, and William S. Clark, member of the Massachusetts Senate and third president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst).

Bethlehem College, Ashfield

Bethlehem College is a high school for girls in Bland Street Ashfield, New South Wales originally founded in 1881 by the Sisters of Charity.

Kirkby-in-Ashfield

It is mentioned in the Domesday Book and has two main churches, St Wilfrid's, a Norman church, which was gutted by fire 6 January 1907 but quickly re-built to its former glory and St Thomas's built in the early 1910s in neo-gothic style.

Robert E. Clary

Born March 21, 1805 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the second son of Electa (Smith) and Ethan Allen Clary was named after the recently executed Irish patriot Robert Emmet.

Sutton Town A.F.C.

Following the loss of the ground for the building of a supermarket, they moved to Lowmoor Road in the neighbouring town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield.

They changed their name to Ashfield United because of a sponsorship deal with Ashfield District Council, however the club folded in 1997.


Arthur Chipperfield

Arthur Gordon Chipperfield (17 November 1905, Ashfield, New South Wales – 29 July 1987, Ryde, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests from 1934 to 1938.

Ashfield Gales

The Ashfield Gales consisted of six generations of a Gale family who owned the Ashfield estate in Killabban Parish, Queens County, Ireland (subsequently renamed County Laois) from the mid-17th Century until 1851.

Electoral district of Strathfield

His successor, Paul Whelan, was a prominent sitting minister in the Carr government who had shifted to Strathfield from the abolished seat of Ashfield, and subsequently served as Police Minister while the member for Strathfield.

Fartown, Huddersfield

A house in Ashfield Street was used as the main family home in the British feature film Between Two Women.

Great Ashfield Castle

Great Ashfield Castle, also known locally as Castle Hill, is a medieval motte and bailey castle near the village of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England.

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway

Starting in 1923, a series of legislative initiatives were made in this direction, with Ashfield and Labour London County Councillor (later MP and Minister of Transport) Herbert Morrison, at the forefront of debates as to the level of regulation and public control under which transport services should be brought.

Howes Brothers

Growing up in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the oldest brother, Alvah, born 1853, was the first to take up photography sometime in the mid-1880s after time spent as a farm laborer.

Kate Ashfield

Kate Ashfield (born 28 May 1972) is a British actress, best known for her award-winning roles as Jody in the Anglo-German film Late Night Shopping, as Sadie MacGregor in the British film This Little Life and as Liz in the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead.

Kathleen Best

Having completed her training, Best nursed at Wyong Hospital on the New South Wales central coast, was appointed Acting Matron at the Rachel Forster Hospital in Sydney and later Deputy-Matron at the Masonic Hospital in Ashfield.

Keith Ashfield

Ashfield was again a candidate in 1999 and was successful, defeating cabinet minister Joan Kingston in the riding of New Maryland.

King's Mill Hospital

King's Mill Hospital (or King's Mill Centre) is a hospital situated adjacent to the main A38 road in a former large open space on the peripheral boundaries between the towns of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.

Leave Before the Lights Come On

The video starts off with Ashfield on the top of a building (the Showroom Cinema) about to jump off.

Mansfield and District Light Railways

These routes began in Mansfield's Market Place and went to Berry Hill, Crown Farm, Mansfield Woodhouse, Pleasley and via Sutton-in-Ashfield to Hucknall-under-Huthwaite.

Mansfield Railway

The Mansfield Railway Act was passed on 26 July 1910, authorising the newly formed Mansfield Railway Company to build a railway line from a junction with the GCR's former LD&ECR main line near Clipstone in Nottinghamshire, to a junction with the GCR main line, eleven miles away near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, also in Nottinghamshire.

Norman Rydge

He married Alys Noad, a musician, on 3 July 1926 at Ashfield; that year he also served as mayor of Canterbury.

Oakham United F.C.

Oakham United Football Club is a now defunct football club based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

An ambitious plan to move to nearby Huthwaite and change the name to Sutton Town (at the time the old Sutton Town was known as Ashfield United) never materialised and the club resigned from the league.

Robin Hood Hills

Robin Hood Hills, Nottinghamshire, a range of hills near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

Stephen Ashfield

Having started in March 2008, Ashfield originated the role of Bob Gaudio in the West End production of Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward Theatre, with his final performance taking place on Sunday 13 March 2011.

Summer Hill, New South Wales

Ninian Melville Jnr (1843–1897), local furniture maker and member of the NSW Parliament who also became Mayor of Newtown and later Ashfield.

Takeover Radio

Takeover Radio is a community radio station broadcasting on FM to Leicester, to the Ashfield district in Nottinghamshire and on the Internet, specialising in helping children gain experience and direct participative involvement in radio broadcasting.


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