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5 unusual facts about Ashwell


Ashwell and Morden railway station

The villages it serves, as well as Odsey, are Ashwell, Guilden Morden and Steeple Morden, although it is located a couple of miles from each of them and linked to them only by minor roads.

Ashwell, Queensland

Walter Loveday and Henry Stevens provided an acre each of land for a school in this district to be named Ashwell after Walter Loveday's farm titled Ashwell which he named after Ashwell, United Kingdom.

The origin of the name Ashwell is from a town in the United Kingdom by the name of Ashwell.

Ashwell, Rutland

Previously the site was a Second World War US army base, home to part of the 82nd Airborne Division.

William Dakins

He is conjectured (Thompson Cooper in the Dictionary of National Biography) to have been the son of William Dakins, M.A., vicar of Ashwell, Hertfordshire.


HM Prison Ashwell

The site of the former prison is located about two miles south of the centre of the village of Ashwell, alongside the road to Oakham and opposite the former kennels of the Cottesmore Hunt.

Ipswich Airport

The site has since been redeveloped as the Ravenswood housing estate; the Grade II listed terminal building was retained and has been converted into a community centre and flats by Ashwell Property Group.

Pauline Ashwell

Ashwell published her first story, "Invasion from Venus", when she was only 14 years old.

Rachel Ashwell

Oprah featured Ashwell on her webside with a tour of Ashwell's beach house.

William Ashwell Shenstone

William Ashwell Shenstone FIC FRS (1 December 1850 in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England - 3 February 1908 in Mullion, Cornwall) was a chemist, schoolmaster and published author.


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