- Ash Vale
infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Ash Vale
map_type= Surrey
population = 9000 (2006)
shire_district= Guildford
shire_county =Surrey
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Guildford
post_town=Aldershot
postcode_district = GU12
postcode_area= GU
dial_code= 01252
os_grid_reference= SU891524
latitude= 51.27
longitude= -0.72Ash 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 ofAldershot 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 andMartin Bicknell .Further reading
* Jenkinson, S. (1990). "Ash and Ash Vale - A Pictorial History", Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-773-9.
External links
* [http://www.ashpcsurrey.gov.uk/ Ash Parish Council]
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