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Ashby de la Zouch railway station

Ashby de la Zouch railway station is a former railway station at Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The Midland Railway opened it in 1849 and British Railways closed it in 1964. The station is a small Neoclassical building, with side pavilions and Doric columns in keeping with the nearby Royal Hotel of 1826. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The Midland Railway opened the station on 1 August 1849 as part of its new line between Swannington and Burton-on-Trent. The station was built partly on the remains of the horse-drawn Ticknall Tramway, which previously connected Ticknall lime quarries with the Ashby Canal. In 1874 the Midland extended its Derby to Melbourne line to Ashby de la Zouch, partly using the route of the former Ticknall Tramway. The junction with the Leicester to Burton-on-Trent line was just west of Ashby station, so for a time the branch was served by a separate station a short distance from the 1849 building. Ashby station forecourt was also a terminus for the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge Burton and Ashby Light Railway, a tramway between Ashby and Burton upon Trent, built by the MR and closed on 19 February 1927. Tram lines for the Burton and Ashby Light Railway are still visible in the forecourt. The line became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway under the Grouping of 1923. In the nationalisation of transport in Britain in 1948 the line passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways. British Railways withdrew passenger services and closed Ashby station on 7 September 1964. The line continues to be used by freight services. Reopening proposals In the 1990s BR planned to restore passenger services between Leicester and Burton as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project. However, after the privatisation of British Rail in 1995 this phase of the project was discontinued. In 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a £49 million proposal to restore passenger services to the line that would include reopening a station at Ashby. In 2018 the Campaign for the Reopening of the Ivanhoe Line (CRIL) – a community voluntary action group – was set up with the aim of restoring passenger services to the Burton to Leicester railway line. Although CRIL's aims include a station at Ashby, its exact location has not yet been defined, as the Ashby station building is now privately owned. Notes References Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M. Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687. Station on navigable O.S. map External links Disused Stations
Ashcombe House, Somerset

Ashcombe House at Swainswick, north-east of Bath in Somerset, England is a Gothic revival country house. It is a Grade II listed building. Ashcombe House stands on the slopes of the Lam Valley in 25 acres (100,000 m2) of grounds. It dates from the early nineteenth century, and was altered in the late nineteenth century. It started life as a hunting lodge, and there are the remains of the former kennels in the grounds. The 1900 1:10,560 scale (6 inch) Ordnance Survey map shows the building was known at that time as Ashcombe Farm, with Ashcombe Wood lying to the north-east of it. The house has a rear wing constructed from a converted coach house and stables, and has nine bedrooms and six reception rooms, including a Georgian ballroom. The house was on the market in 2003 for £1.6 million. Musician Peter Gabriel rented the property between 1978 and 1987 as his family home and converted the house's barn into his home studio, where he recorded three of his albums: his 1982 album Peter Gabriel, commonly known as 4 (or as Security in the US); the soundtrack for the film Birdy, which he recorded between October and December 1984; and his album So, recorded in 1985 and released in 1986. The track "My Secret Place" from the Joni Mitchell album Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm was recorded at Gabriel's studio at Ashcombe House in 1986, as were parts of the 1987 Robbie Robertson album Robbie Robertson (although the sleeve credits erroneously locate Ashcombe House in London). References External links Images of England page on the house Photos of the house
Queen Elizabeth School, Luton

Queen Elizabeth School (formerly Ashcroft High School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the Crawley Green area of Luton in the English county of Bedfordshire. History At the time of a 2016 Ofsted report, about 15% of the students were White British; 60% were Asian or British Asian from Bangladeshi, Pakistani, or Indian backgrounds; and 25% were Black or Black British from Caribbean or African backgrounds. Ninety students spoke English as an additional language at an early stage of development. The school had an above average proportion of students eligible for free school meals. The percentage of students identified with learning difficulties and/or disabilities was above the national average, while the number of students with a statement of special educational needs was in line with the national average. In 2018, Ashcroft High School was named as one of the worst performing schools in the United Kingdom as one of the 346 facilities which fell below the Government's minimum standards for progression. In September 2021 Ashcroft High School was renamed Queen Elizabeth School. This was to reflect the school gaining its highest ever exam results. The name change also honoured Queen Elizabeth II in the lead up to her Platinum Jubilee in 2022. The school today Queen Elizabeth School is a foundation school administered by Luton Borough Council. The school serves the local areas of Crawley Green, parts of High Town and Wigmore. The school caters for students aged between 11 and 16. Notable former pupils Whilst the school was formerly known as Ashcroft High School: Lewis Baker - professional footballer Michael Cain - professional footballer Neil Coyle - Labour and independent Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark Matthew Harriott - professional footballer Callum Reynolds - professional footballer Colin Salmon - actor Paul Young - singer and guitarist References External links School website
Ashdown House (East Sussex)

Ashdown House ist ein Landhaus in der englischen Verwaltungseinheit East Sussex. Heute beherbergt es ein Internat. Geschichte Bereits 1296 wurde auf dem Anwesen eine Kapelle geweiht. 1575 wurde auf dem Anwesen ein Herrenhaus im Tudorstil errichtet, das bis heute erhalten ist. Ashdown House wurde vom Architekten Benjamin Latrobe 1794 fertiggestellt. Latrobe war später am Bau des Kapitols in Washington, D.C. beteiligt und entwarf auch das nahegelegene Landhaus Hammerwood Park in East Sussex. Auch der Front-Portikus des Weißes Hauses in Washington stammt von ihm. 1975 wurde das Landhaus vom gemeinnützigen Ashdown House Trust übernommen. Bald danach zog eine Mädchenschule ein, die vorher in Connaught House in Brighton beheimatet war. Gleichzeitig nahm die Schule auch Buben auf. Heute hat sie etwa 120 Schüler zwischen 7 und 13 Jahren. Konstruktion Das 2½-stöckige Haus mit rechteckigem Grundriss hat drei Joche an jeder Seite. Es wurde aus grauem Werkstein erstellt. Dem mittleren Joch der Eingangsfront ist ein halbrunder Portikus mit ionischen Säulen vorgebaut, der später verglast wurde. Die Fenster im Erdgeschoss reichen bis zum Boden. Das Dachgeschoss ist dreigeteilt: Die beiden äußeren Joche der Eingangsfassade sind in der Linie der beiden Hauptstockwerke aufgezogen, während das mittlere Joch zurückspringt. Die beiden äußeren Joche sind mit einer Balustrade verbunden. Einzelnachweise
Ashfield School, Kirkby-in-Ashfield

Ashfield School or Ashfield Comprehensive School is a large secondary school with academy status located in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, which educates pupils with ages 11–19. The school has approximately 2,500 students, split into six houses – Trent, Chesterfield, Thoroton, Byron, Hargreaves and Coates. The six houses have students from all year groups except those who are from the sixth form. The current headteacher of the school is Jenny Brown, who succeeded John Maher in 2025. History Built in 1964 as Nottinghamshire's first purpose-built comprehensive school, Ashfield School now has a self-contained 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus. Facilities include computer suites, an ICT Centre, on-site sports facilities including four gymnasia, tennis courts, all weather sports fields, running track and a swimming pool. Other resources on-site include music studios, a tiered theatre and drama complex, photographic darkroom, print making and ceramics studios, fifteen science laboratories, a business centre, a CAD/CAM centre, library and careers library. In 2007, the sixth form (Post 16) centre opened, with a large cafeteria-like area, and over 30 classrooms, for both A Level and vocational studies. 2012 saw the closure of the music block next to the sixth form centre. This was replaced in 2013 by the Resource Centre, an extension of the sixth form which includes 3 classrooms (with walls that can slide to create one large room) and a library/study area. The latter is exclusive to sixth form students. A new drama/music block was built in late 2012, between the science and maths blocks, as the previous block had been removed to make way for the Resource Centre. Summer 2020 saw an extension onto one of the science blocks, which saw the addition of 3 new science classrooms. Ashfield Skills Centre (ASC) The Ashfield Skills Centre is a £7.1million project which delivers six learning environments. The centre includes: Eight vocational units equipped to industry standard specification to mimic an industrial or commercial context. Course content and delivery are provided by industrial and commercial training providers in textiles, business, child care, health and beauty and ICT. Three industrial units: deliver vocational courses in construction, plumbing, automotive, electrical, catering and hospitality courses delivered by industrial training providers RAC, Carillion and Charnwood. Resource Centre: built in 2013, this million pound extension offers a study area for all sixth form students. Notable alumni Lee Anderson, Reform UK MP and former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. Chris Gascoyne, actor. James Graham, playwright and screenwriter. Oliver Hynd, a Paralympic swimmer, with a gold medal in the 400m freestyle at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sam Hynd, a former Paralympic swimmer. References External links Ashfield Comprehensive School profile provided by the BBC
Dorton House, Buckinghamshire

Dorton House is a Jacobean country house near the village of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, England. It was built between 1596 and 1626. It currently houses Ashfold School, an independent preparatory school. Dorton House is a Grade I listed building. History Historic England gives a build date for the house of the early 17th century, noting a datestone for 1626 on an external soffit. Elizabeth Williamson and Nikolaus Pevsner, in their revised Buckinghamshire volume of the Buildings of England, give a rather later date of 1675. Both attribute the house to Sir John Dormer. The house was sold in 1783 to Sir John Fletcher and remained in his family until 1928 when it was sold to Major Michael Beaumont who served as a British soldier, Conservative Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. The Royal London Society for the Blind purchased the house in 1939, as a school, before they moved to Wildernesse at Dorton House in Seal, Kent, in 1955. In 1955 the house was purchased by James Harrison and turned into Ashfold preparatory school. Ashfold School is a co-educational independent day and boarding preparatory school for about 270 pupils aged from 3 to 13 years. Actor brothers Edward and James Fox attended the school when it was near Haywards Heath in West Sussex. Architecture and description The house is in a Jacobean Style and is in a horseshoe shape. The house was built from bricks made from local clay fired at the bottom of Brill Hill. References Sources Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 295. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. Pevsner, Nicholas; Williamson, Elizabeth (2003). Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300095845. OCLC 1204460755. External links Ashfold School official website Dorton House official website
Ashford Reservoir

Ashford Reservoir is a small reservoir on the eastern side of the Quantock Hills near the villages of Charlynch and Spaxton in Somerset, England. It was constructed 1934 as a water supply reservoir for Bridgwater. Originally the reservoir was contained by a small embankment dam. In 2009 the banks were removed and replaced by a concrete wall that could contain 45,000,000 litres (9,900,000 imp gal; 12,000,000 US gal) of water. The reservoir collects the water of Peart Water which is also dammed at Hawkridge Reservoir. Below the reservoir the Peart Water joins the Currypool stream to form the Cannington Brook. Fishing is allowed and catches include; Bream, Perch and Roach. The water treatment centre provides educational opportunities. References External links Spaxton at British History Online
Ashford School

Ashford School is a coeducational private boarding and day school in East Hill, Ashford, Kent. There are 480 students in the senior school (ages 11 to 18) and 360 in the prep school (ages 3 to 11). The school is owned and run by the United Church Schools Trust. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). History The school was set up in 1898 by Muriel Thimann, who opened a small women's school on Queens Road, Ashford. The school moved to Wellesley Road in 1903 and then to two houses on High Street in 1905. In 1910, Anne Edwards bought the school and renamed it "the Modern High School for Girls". The school expanded into another adjacent house on High Street and then moved to bigger premises on East Hill in 1913. In 2005, it merged with Friars Prep School in Great Chart, and in 2006, boys were admitted in some year groups. Ashford School is now a co-educational school from the age of 3 to 18 offering boarding and day facilities. Space shuttle experiment In 1992, a science experiment designed by four girls at the school flew on the Space Shuttle on flight STS-47. The experiment had been designed in 1985 by the girls who had won a competition organised by Independent Television News. The chemical garden experiment was successful but the Liesegang rings failed to operate correctly due to friction in parts of the mechanism. On their return, they were displayed in the London Science Museum. The seven-year delay had been caused by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster which occurred in 1986 shortly before the intended flight. Notable alumni Petronella Barker (born 1942), actress Liv Boeree, model, TV presenter and poker player Sally Brampton, journalist, writer and magazine editor Lucy Cooke, National Geographic explorer, documentary producer/presenter, author and zoologist Wendy Cope, poet Anna Turley, former Labour MP and Chairwoman of the Co-operative Party since 8 June 2019 References External links School website Stats from www.bbc.co.uk Ofsted
Ашфордская школа

Ашфордская школа (англ. Ashford School) — частная английская школа, расположенная в городе Ашфорд в графстве Кент. Учебное заведение состоит из двух частей, расположенных на разных территориях. Детский сад (до 5 лет) и подготовительная (с 5 до 11 лет) школа расположены в деревне Грейт Чарт на западной окраине Ашфорда; старшая (с 11 до 18 лет) школа находится в центре города. Общее количество учеников — около 1 000, в том числе в старшей школе — около 480. Примерно 30 % учеников старших классов составляют иностранцы, большая часть которых проживает в зданиях, расположенных на территории школы. Школа была основана в 1898 г. как небольшое учебное заведение для девочек. В течение XX века постепенно расширялась, приобретая новые здания в городе. В 2005 г. произошло объединение с другой частной школой в Ашфорде и введено совместное обучение; в настоящее время количество мальчиков и девочек примерно одинаково. В 2010/11 учебном году была признана частной школой года в Англии. Примечания
Ashley Hall, Cheshire

Ashley Hall is a country house north of the village of Ashley, Cheshire, England. It dates from the late 16th to the early 17th century, with additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is historically important because it was here that the Cheshire gentlemen met in 1715 to decide whether to support the Stuarts or the Hanoverians. They decided on the latter and later commissioned a set of portraits, which now hang in Tatton Hall. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Also listed at Grade II are the gate piers to the forecourt of the building, a carriage house in the forecourt, the kitchen garden wall, and the stable block. For the biographical drama film Tolkien (2019), 15 acres of the Tatton Estate were used to recreate the trenches of the First World War. Other listed buildings at Ashley Hall See also Listed buildings in Ashley, Cheshire References
Ashley School

The Ashley School, in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England is a special school for pupils with Moderate Learning Difficulties and complex needs. The school has been twice graded "outstanding" by OFSTED. It is considered a specialist school for Cognition and Learning. Background The Ashley School provides education for around 135 students with moderate/complex learning difficulties aged 7–16. The school offers housing options for 29 students from Monday through Thursday. The school provides numerous therapeutic services for their pupils including a speech and language team. See also Adeyfield Academy References External links Official website
Ashmole Academy

Ashmole Academy (formerly Ashmole School) is a comprehensive secondary school with academy status in Southgate in the London Borough of Barnet. Under the direction of the headteacher Balbinder Dhinsa, around 1,800 pupils (550 in the sixth form) are educated in ages 11–18. Pupils come from a wide range of minority ethnic heritages and a greater than usual number of pupils speak English as an additional language. History The school, named after the 17th-century antiquary and politician Elias Ashmole, was founded in 1958 as the successor of Russell Lane Secondary Modern Boys' School which had changed its name to Ashmole School in about 1949, had Southaw School merged into it in 1971, and became a foundation school in 1999. It achieved specialist status in Science in 2002, and added a second specialism, Music, in 2006. The school moved into a new building on the same site in September 2004 costing £14m. The existing administration block was refurbished and opened as the performing arts centre in June 2005. This was funded by the sale of 38 acres (15 ha) of school grounds for redevelopment as housing. On 1 October 2010, it became one of the first schools in north London (second in Barnet – after QE Boys) to convert to an academy after an invitation from the Coalition Government. Academic standards Ofsted gave an overall rating of the school as Grade 1 Outstanding, the highest available assessment for a UK school, following their 2007 inspection. As of 2024, the school's most recent inspection was in 2021, with a judgement of Good. Notable former pupils Aden Durde, gridiron football player and coach Gilbert Gabriel, musician Julian Kelly, footballer Graham King, film producer Dee Murray, guitarist Daniel Peacock, actor and director Dan Gillespie Sells, musician Steve Sidwell, musician Rachel Stevens, singer, businesswoman, model and actress Andrew Symeou, author Phoebe Thomas, actress Amy Winehouse, singer Halimat Adio, England netball Player References External links Official website
Ashtead Common

Ashtead Common, nearly 495 acres (c. 200 ha), is a wooded area open to the public, to the north of the village of Ashtead in Surrey, England. It is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation, after being bought by the City due to concern in the 1870s that access to the open countryside around London was being threatened. 180.5 ha of the common is a National Nature Reserve. Together with Epsom Common it forms part of a larger area of open countryside called Epsom and Ashtead Commons, which is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Background Ashtead Common has been part of the Epsom and Ashtead Commons SSSI since 1955 due to its community of breeding birds. It has also been a National Nature Reserve since 1995 because of the wood of decaying ancient trees and the rare invertebrates that live in it. It contains a wooded common with over 2,300 pollarded oaks, between 300 and 400 years old. These provide a habitat for many rare and endangered deadwood species. The area is of conservation interest in Britain and Europe. Also within the common are bracken, scrub grassland, semi-improved neutral grassland and various aquatic habitats. Trials have been undertaken on how to deal with the invasion of Michaelmas daisies. It was concluded that grazing by goats was the most successful management option. There are remains of a Roman villa and tile works on the common. These are scheduled ancient monuments. There are also some earthworks. When the Southern Railway planned to build a new line to connect Chessington South railway station with Leatherhead railway station in the 1930s, work was delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War, and afterwards the introduction of the "Green Belt" stopped development of the area. Part of the land reserved for the railway to the south of Ashtead Wood was subsequently used for the construction of the M25 motorway. Access Ashtead Common, together with Epsom Common, extends from the M25 Junction 9 near Leatherhead to the outskirts of Epsom. There are many entrances to the common for walkers, including in north Ashtead and Epsom. The Thames Down Link long-distance footpath, from Kingston upon Thames to Box Hill and Westhumble station, cuts across the western half of the common. References External links Map Ashtead Common pages on the City of London Corporation website