10 Facts About Ashtead

Primarily a commuter settlement, Ashtead is on the single-carriageway A24 between Epsom and Leatherhead.

The site on Ashtead Common consisted of a corridor villa and kilns adjacent to a series of claypits.

Bricks and tiles produced in Ashtead were most likely transported via a short branch road to Stane Street, the Roman road that runs to the south east of the village centre.

Railway line through Ashtead was built by the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway Company and opened on 1 February 1859.

In 1940 and 1941, several buildings in Ashtead suffered damage as a result of enemy bombing during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, including St Andrew's School, which was almost completely destroyed.

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The northern half of Ashtead Park was threatened with development from the late 1940s and so it was purchased by Surrey County Council in 1957, before being passed to the ownership of the Leatherhead Urban District Council.

Since 1997, Ashtead has been part of the parliamentary constituency of Epsom and Ewell.

Clay pits on Ashtead Common were active in the 1st, 2nd, 13th and 14th centuries and, in the mid-19th century, there was a brick kiln and drying shed in Newton Wood.

In October 1985, Ashtead was joined to the UK motorway system, when the M25 motorway was opened between Wisley and Reigate.

Baptist Church has its origins in the Ashtead Gospel Church, which was a temporary building, constructed of corrugated iron in 1895.