Ash Vale
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Ash Vale is a village in the parish of Ash in Surrey, England.
Its population according to the 2001 census is 7,326, yet extensive development in the following five year period has led to a current population nearer 9,000, giving Ash Vale an equal number of inhabitants to the historically more significant neighbour with which it now merges.
Ash Vale is located in the borough of Guildford, yet is geographically positioned closer to the Hampshire towns of Aldershot and Farnborough, immediately across the Blackwater River.
The village owes its existence to transport links, its geography demarked largely between its railway station and Ash Wharf on the Basingstoke Canal.
An increasing proportion of the village's population relies on the half-hourly 40-minute railway connection to London's Waterloo railway terminus, and the small semi-military community of the post-war era has become a largely commuter settlement.
Famous people from Ash Vale include Samuel Cody, the first man to achieve powered heavier-than-air flight in Britain, and professional cricketers Darren and Martin Bicknell.
[edit] Further reading
- Jenkinson, S. (1990). Ash and Ash Vale - A Pictorial History, Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-773-9.
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