50-504: John Maunders (born 4 April 1981, Ashford , Middlesex , England) is an English cricketer . John Maunders was born in Ashford Middlesex and initially played his cricket for Ashford Cricket Club where he was a key member of a very good colts side. Maunders played First Class cricket as an opening batsman, scoring 5 centuries and bowled occasional medium pace yielding 24 wickets . His career started with Middlesex where he
100-553: A crossing point of the River Ash , a distributary of the River Colne . Historically part of Middlesex , the town has been part of Surrey since 1965. Ashford consists of relatively low density low- and medium-rise buildings, none of them being high rise. If excluding apartments (at the last census 27% of the housing stock) most houses are semi-detached . In 2011 it had a population of 27,382. Ashford railway station , on
150-416: A 12th-century arch from it were incorporated into St Matthew's. William Butterfield designed St Matthew's in a Gothic Revival style. The tower was not completed until 1865. St Hilda 's parish church at the junction of Stanwell and Woodthorpe Roads was founded as a daughter church of St Matthew's to serve the rapidly expanding community around the railway station. Construction started in 1912 and most of
200-531: A day (1.205 million m /d) the joint company could abstract any surplus up to 100 million gallons (454,609 m ) of which 35 million gallons (159,113 m ) could be run directly to the filter beds at Hampton and the surplus (295,496 m /day) pumped into the reservoirs. The top water level in the North Reservoir is 3 m higher than the South reservoir. Water for treatment and use is drawn from the reservoirs through
250-612: A negligible % of households living rent-free). The aspect of the whole parish is rapidly changing. Until a few years ago it was almost completely rural References Staines Reservoirs The Staines Reservoirs are two large pumped storage reservoirs sitting to the east of the King George VI Reservoir near Heathrow airport in Surrey within the Colne Valley regional park . The village of Stanwell
300-765: A reminder of its past status as a grazing common ; these include recreation grounds such as Thames Water -sponsored Spelthorne Sports Club and the BP recreation ground. In The Clumps, 37 houses in the Ashford post town , which has the postcode TW15, are in the London Borough of Hounslow , Greater London, alongside the Princes Club watersports lakes partly in Ashford post town but mostly in East Bedfont , Feltham post town, London. The other road with this status
350-531: A separate manor in 1066, it was part of the manor of Kempton in 1086. It rendered (in total) 14s 0d. Throughout the early medieval period the place was also referred to as Echelford. A stone bridge was built over the ford in 1789 by the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust Ashford Common was a large area of common land in the south and east of the town that the British Army used for military displays in
400-540: A south-east direction into the Red House distribution reservoir (51°25'11.6"N 0°23'20.4"W). From here a pipeline and an open aqueduct takes water south to the reservoirs at the west end of Hampton waterworks. From 1916 experiments were undertaken to pre-treat the water in the aqueduct with chlorine added to the water from the Staines reservoirs. To increase the supply of water the aqueduct was paralleled underground in
450-439: A wide area of Surrey. Active sports clubs in Ashford competitive at many levels are: Ashford Town F.C. , Ashford Casuals F.C. and Ashford Cricket Club. Clubs exist for hockey, tennis, table Tennis, aikido, karate, golf and bowls, with leading clubs in acrobatic gymnastics and sailing which offer professional coaching from Olympic-level coaches. Ashford Manor Golf Club is described above, a golf course that has 18 holes; one other
500-544: Is a Congregational church in Clarendon Road. The Salvation Army has a citadel in Woodthorpe Road. The main street, Church Road, has local businesses, including Co-op , Tesco Express , Costa Coffee , Sainsbury's, several estate agents, three funeral directors, and several places to eat. Church Road is also home to Ashford Library and a prominent World War I memorial. There are several pubs in
550-672: Is a 13 km (8.1 mi) aqueduct that runs from the River Thames at Hythe End in Buckinghamshire (51°26'24.4"N 0°32'28.8"W) to the Red House distribution reservoir (51°25'11.6"N 0°23'20.4"W) near Kempton Park. It was built by the Staines Reservoirs Joint Committee and originally completed in 1902. The maximum flow capacity of the aqueduct is 364 million litres per day (364,000 m /day). Water
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#1732772869609600-521: Is drawn from the north side of the Thames about 300 yards above Bell Weir, at a decorative sluice house. This is provided with sluices to control the flow and screens to prevent debris entering the aqueduct. The water runs underground for about 350 yards in a north-east direction, it then flows in two steel siphons under the Colne Brook. It continues in a concrete lined open conduit, before going under
650-647: Is in the borough, Sunbury Golf Course in Charlton . In 1921, the golf course was the site of the murder of British spy Vincent Fovargue by the IRA. Spelthorne Atoms (previously known as Ashford Atoms) are one of the best youth basketball teams in the country having been to the national finals on a number of occasions. Spelthorne Gymnastics club is one of the World's premier clubs for acrobatic gymnastics, having won eight World championship gold medals. Ashford has one river,
700-554: Is mainly to the north east, and the town of Staines is to the south. Both adjoin, west, the A3044 . The south one adjoins the A30 where the road is bypassed by the intra-M25 motorway network but is a trunk road, maintained by National Highways . They were completed in 1902. For reliable and plentiful water supplies, three London water companies resolved to construct and operate two large reservoirs at seasonally waterlogged land partly in
750-492: Is now defunct, but in 2010 its buildings and playing fields became the premises of St James Senior Boys School . Ashford County Grammar School was founded in 1911. It became Ashford Sixth Form College in 1975 and Spelthorne College later. In 2007 it merged with Brooklands College . A property developer, Inland Homes plc, has since acquired the former grammar school buildings in Church Road. In 2017 it started to demolish
800-505: Is represented by a Conservative councillor, as is Staines South and Ashford West ; Sunbury Common and Ashford Common is also represented by a Conservative councillor, and part of north Ashford is in the division of Stanwell and Stanwell Moor , represented by Robert Evans , a Labour Councillor. Ashford has 12 representatives on Spelthorne Borough Council , headquartered in Staines-upon-Thames . The details below are for
850-465: Is surrounded by some areas of green space including The Princes Club, Bedfont Lakes and Shortwood Common. Ashford is in the almost flat alluvial plain formed by the historic courses of the River Thames on fairly fertile but gravelly soil in centuries past covered by deciduous forest for wood gathering, with clearings of meadow for pasture and to a lesser extent arable farming to supply
900-435: Is the pair of Staines Reservoirs , the other green buffer is The Princes Club, Bedfont Lakes, spanning the northeast border; these areas constitute Metropolitan Green Belt buffers to the country's largest city. The area includes postally much of Queen Mary Reservoir (which covered most of the parish to the south of Littleton and almost none of historic Ashford) named after the wife of George V , Mary of Teck . Most of
950-475: Is the western half of Challenge Road, which has only business addresses. Bronze Age artefacts have been found in Ashford (at 51.432708N, 0.485174W) giving rise to the name Bronzefield and a henge may have been present in that period. Ashford appears on the Middlesex Domesday map as Exeforde , held by Robert, Count of Mortain . Its Domesday assets were: 1 plough, meadow for 1 plough;
1000-569: The River Ash , one of the six distributaries of the River Colne which runs in line with the Staines bypass under the Fordbridge roundabout at the far end of Fordbridge Road, its upper reach being the traditional border with Staines and then entering Laleham , passing close to the other side of the Queen Mary Reservoir. The Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct (built 1902) flows from west to east across Ashford. It carries water from
1050-568: The Staines Reservoir Bill of 1896. The bill was opposed by some landowners, London and Middlesex County Councils . Nevertheless, the bill was enacted, with amendments, as the Staines Reservoirs, &c. Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c.ccxli). The companies formed a joint committee to oversee the construction. The two reservoirs, North and South, are separated by a 1,030-metre embankment dam. The embankments of
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#17327728696091100-554: The Waterloo to Reading Line , is served by South Western Railway . Heathrow Airport is 2.5 mi (4 km) north of the town. A leading gymnastics club, HMP Bronzefield and one of the sites of Brooklands College are in the town. Ashford Hospital , which began as a workhouse, is to the north of the town centre. Ashford Common has a parade of shops and is a more residential ward that includes part of Queen Mary Reservoir and all of its related water treatment works. The town
1150-462: The civil parish had a population of 16,502. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished. The present Church of England parish church of St Matthew in Church Road was built in 1856–58 with financial help from the Welsh School. It was sited some yards west of Ashford's earlier parish church of St Michael , parts of which were Norman . St Michael's was demolished, but internal monuments and
1200-600: The 1960s by the Staines–Kempton aqueduct tunnel. This was built by the Metropolitan Water Board between 1960–63 and runs from Little Hythe on the Thames to the water treatment works at Kempton Park. It is 7.64 kilometres (4.75 mi) long and 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) in diameter. The tunnel is lined with 150,000 expanded concrete wedge blocks. The contractors for the project were Edmund Nuttall, Sons and Company Limited. In February 2014, after
1250-420: The 2011 election: The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus
1300-679: The County Championship and the NatWest Pro40. He is now the proprietor of Maunders Cricket, based at Sunbury Cricket Club, providing specialist cricket coaching to young and adult players. Ashford, Surrey Ashford is a town in Spelthorne , in Surrey , England, including some areas within the London Borough of Hounslow. The town lies 14 mi (23 km) west of central London. Its name derives from
1350-469: The London market; sheep grazing continues today around the reservoirs. In common with western fringes of Greater London, gravel commences often within a metre of the surface which has led to 20th-century gravel extraction, which has formed the lakes to the north of the railway line. The extreme west is Shortwood Common, partly converted to a recreation ground, Ashford Park School, a cemetery. North of this
1400-496: The Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct, built as part of the works. Water was originally lifted from the aqueduct to the reservoirs by five steam driven engines, each with a capacity of 16 million gallons per day (72,737 m /day). The engines were housed in Staines pumping station south-west of the south reservoir. Under the original legal provisions, when the flow of the river at Bell Weir exceeded 265 million gallons
1450-595: The Staines Reservoirs and King George VI Reservoir to Hampton water treatment works via Sunbury and Kempton Park. Ashford is part of the Spelthorne parliamentary constituency which was represented by the Conservative Kwasi Kwarteng from 2010 to 2024. After Stepping down Kwarteng was replaced by Conservative MP Lincoln Jopp . In Surrey County Council , 4 of the 81 councillors are elected by Ashford in whole or in part: Ashford
1500-527: The Wraysbury river in steel siphons, then east across Staines Moor and another siphon under the River Colne to Staines pumping station. From here water is lifted into the Staines and King George VI reservoirs by pumps. Water for treatment and use is drawn from the Staines and King George VI Reservoirs and flows along the Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct in an east-south-east direction to Ashford, then around
1550-479: The borough's religiously denominated senior schools, The Bishop Wand Church of England School and St Paul's Catholic College . Ashford's further education college, Spelthorne College, became a Brooklands College Campus in 2007. In 2016 the Ashford Campus relocated to a new building adjacent to Thomas Knyvett College, and the former Spelthorne College site was demolished. It serves 16 to 18 year olds from
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1600-549: The buildings without planning permission. The developer stopped the work at the request of Spelthorne Borough Council after demolition had started, but later continued the demolition, having received planning permission to build 357 new homes on the site. In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894 , Ashford became part of the Staines Rural District of Middlesex . In 1930 the rural district
1650-424: The church was built in the first few years, but the chancel and some other parts were not completed until 1928. St Hilda's original design included a spire that would have been one of the most significant landmarks in the area, but it was never built. St Hilda's was initially a conventual district of St Matthew's parish, but is now a separate ecclesiastical parish . The easternmost parts of Ashford Common are in
1700-499: The height of the dam walls and removing the dividing embankment. The work was estimated to take up to six years to complete. From April 2020 a sheet pile cut-off wall was installed in two places to prevent leakage of water through the core of the south reservoir's embankment. The area has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) as it carries important wintering populations of tufted ducks , pochard , goosander and goldeneye . The Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct
1750-695: The hostages were either released or escaped before the perpetrator surrendered to police. Ashford is on the Waterloo to Reading Line , with South Western Railway stopping services from London Waterloo on two of its three routes, those to Windsor & Eton Riverside and to Weybridge on the South West Main Line via the Chertsey Line . The station is referred to in timetables as Ashford (Surrey) in order to avoid confusion with Ashford International station in Kent. Not far north of
1800-535: The land is devoted to suburban and low-rise urban housing – as well as recreational areas, green belt in part of the Bedfont/Feltham fringe exists in the form of meadows used for walking, horse grazing and equestrianism around Feltham Young Offenders' Institution . A few parks such as the Ashford Reservoirs or Spelthorne Park are remnants of Ashford Common which give the eastern part of the town
1850-459: The north side of Queen Mary Reservoir , water discharged from the reservoir enters the aqueduct at this point. The aqueduct continues across Ashford Common with a connection to Ashford Common water treatment works and then across Sunbury Common. From Sunbury Common the aqueduct changes direction to the north-east, it curves around the north side of Kempton Park race course with connections to Sunbury and Kempton Park water treatment works, and flows in
1900-578: The parish of St Saviour's, Sunbury. The Roman Catholic Church of St Michael in Fordbridge Road was begun in 1927 and the uncompleted building was consecrated in 1928. It was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in a Romanesque Revival style. Building continued in 1938, but the tower was not completed until 1960. Ashford has two Methodist churches : one on Clarendon Road and the other in Ashford Common on Feltham hill Road. There
1950-719: The parish of Staines, otherwise in Stanwell. These would be pumped storage reservoirs to hold water abstracted from the Thames receiving it from an aqueduct, then delivering it by another to treatment works for their supply pipes. The three were the New River Company, the Grand Junction Water Company and the West Middlesex Water Company. To obtain full indemnity and a compulsory purchase standard mechanism they promoted
2000-552: The record for the highest innings in the Leicester 2nd XI for whom he scored 228 not out, declaring as captain to provide his opponents with an achievable target. Despite such promise, he was one of six cricketers to be released by Leicestershire in October 2007. He was quickly recruited by Essex making his debut against Northants and scored 62 and 26. His contract was extended by a further 12 months after strong performances in
2050-596: The reign of George III . It was inclosed in 1809. Ashford Manor Golf Club was established in 1902 at the property which was the Manor Farm House but the large manorial estate and manor house that were held by Solomon Abraham Hart from 1870 to 1882 had before 1902 been broken up among many small owners, and all trace of the manor house was lost. However the title of Lord of the Manor was acquired by Scott Freeman in 1890, and after passing to another partner of
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2100-403: The solicitors Horne, Engall & Freeman the title passed in more recent times to Russell Grant . Ashford's housing stock is chiefly a mixture of detached and semi-detached housing built between 1885 and 1960. The Welsh School (later St David's School ) was founded in 1857. Its building north of Ashford railway station is Gothic Revival , designed by Henry Clutton . St David's School
2150-516: The station is the A30 dual carriageway, which marks much of Ashford's northern border. It follows the old route from London to Devon and Cornwall. The alignment of this road is WSW–ENE. A straight relief road, roughly WNW–ESE, was built by the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust. Now the A308 , it has become a dual carriageway from Sunbury Cross to the junction with the A30 at Staines. This road marks some of
2200-767: The town including the King's Fairway, the District Arms, the King's Head, the Freemans Arms, and the Bulldog (a Harvester gastropub ). Ashford, in common with most of London suburbia , has very low unemployment rates. A great deal of local employment is directly related to Heathrow Airport . BP International is another major employer. Many other residents work in London or in the Thames Valley . Main dealers of Ford , Citroën and formerly Suzuki are along
2250-460: The town's outlying dual carriageway roads. The town previously had multiple high street banks including Barclays , HSBC , Lloyds and Santander , however all of these have since closed. The Barclays branch located on Church Road was the site of an attempted robbery in June 2010, when a man armed with an imitation gun and a fake bomb took multiple hostages, demanding £800,000 and a helicopter. All of
2300-616: The town's southern border. Ashford is close to the M25 , M3 and A3 roads . The town is on Hallmark Connections route 555 from Heathrow Airport to Walton-on-Thames , on three Transport for London routes, the 117 , 216 and 290 , also serving Isleworth , Kingston upon Thames and Twickenham respectively, and more occasional routes, including special school services run by other operators. In addition, three secondary schools were established in Sunbury-on-Thames , including
2350-602: The two have a 6- to 8-metre-deep puddle clay core having scoured out the surface gravel to the underlying London Clay. They have total capacity of 3,338 million gallons (15.175 million m ) and were completed in 1902. The valve towers are to the west. Later in the same year of building the three companies, and seven others, dissolved into the Metropolitan Water Board – under the Metropolis Water Act 1902 . The reservoirs are filled from
2400-595: The valve towers and delivered to the aqueduct to flow south-east to several water treatment works. The Metropolitan Water Board operated the reservoirs until the Board was abolished in 1974 under the provisions of the Water Act 1973 and ownership and control transferred to the Thames Water Authority , now Thames Water . In 1992 there was a proposal to increase the capacity of the reservoirs by raising
2450-474: Was abolished and joined Staines Urban District . In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, Middlesex County Council was abolished and the urban district was transferred to Surrey . In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , Staines Urban District was abolished and its area combined with that of Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District to create the present borough of Spelthorne . In 1931
2500-836: Was given limited first team opportunity but performed well at second team level and represented England in U19 Test cricket, participating in the U19 World Cup in India. Without a regular place in the full Middlesex side John moved to Leicestershire where he became a regular in the Championship side during the 2005 season. He scored a total of 3,544 runs for Leicestershire in 124 innings with 3 Not Outs, at an average of 29.28, which included 5 hundreds and 18 fifties. His 24 wickets were taken at an average of 38.66, with an economy rate of 3.65, and best figures of 4 for 15. He also holds
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