Ashley Park, Surrey
Historical Description
Ashley-Park, the seat of the Sassoon family, on the N border of Surrey, on the Thames, 4½ miles E by S of Chertsey. The mansion is an edifice of red brick, with Tudor features, but has been much modernized, and contains a gallery 100 feet long. Some very large Scotch pines are in the park.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ashley Park are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)