Quality Homecare in Ashtead

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Ashtead Hospital

Brief history of the area

Ashtead means "place of ash trees". Its occupation has been traced back to about 2000BC but the first evidence of a permanent settlement was in Saxon times when the village was called Stede. The village is currently split by the A24 that leads from the coast to London. The Roman road, Stane Street passes through the south east of Ashtead where there is a site of roman occupation near St. Giles Church. There are also the remains of a Roman villa on Ashtead Common which form part of a complex including a bathhouse and tile works. The main period of occupation was AD117-38 however some buildings were first erected on the site in circa AD67-79, around the time of the first civil war of the Roman Empire.

The two main shopping areas in Ashtead are the High Street and the road parallel to the High Street, Craddocks Parade, on the Craddocks Avenue, leading to the railway station. For a village of its size Ashtead is well stocked with popular restaurants, with Chinese, Indian, Fish and Chip restaurants as well as several smaller cafes. Popular with local celebrities are the Beijing Palace on Ashtead’s High Street and the Mogul Dynasty on Ashtead’s Craddock Avenue.

Ashtead is also home to Ashtead Hospital, one of Surrey's private hospitals opened in the old chalk quarry site to the south of the village in September 1984.

Did you know?

Ashtead Common’s villa and tileworks is among Surrey’s most important archaeological sites. Surrey Archaeological Society regularly performs fieldwork on the Roman site. Notable neighbours include Loose Women’s Andrea McLean. Clash frontman Joe Strummer was among the local City of London Freemen’s School’s famous alumni.

Formerly known as Farm Lane Nurseries, Ashtead is also home to Rainbow Garden Nurseries. An independent, family run nursery which sells a range of interesting retro and vintage garden accessories, as well as growing 90 per cent of their plants onsite.