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Ashtead history
Pre-history
The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. A backed blade made of flint, dating from 50,000 to 12,000 years before present (BP), was found during pipeline excavations in Lower Ashtead. Bronze Age artefacts discovered in the village include a spearhead and pottery sherds.
Roman and Saxon
Ashtead was the site of a major Roman brickworks in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The site consisted of a corridor villa and kilns adjacent to a series of claypits. The complex was excavated in the 1920s and it is now protected by scheduled monument status.
Medieval
Ashtead appears in the Domesday Book as Stede and was held by the Canons of Bayeux. The de Warenne Family, the Earls of Surrey, held the manor in the 12th century. In the second half of the 13th century, it passed to the de Montfort family.
Early modern
Sir Robert Howard purchased the manor from his cousin Henry Howard, the 6th Duke of Norfolk, in 1680. Sir Robert built a new mansion and enclosed the surrounding park to create a formal garden. The turnpike road between Epsom and Horsham, which ran through Ashtead, was authorised by Parliament in 1755.
19th century
Ashtead remained a predominantly farming community for the first seven decades of the 19th century. The manor continued to be owned by members of the Howard family and was inherited by Mary Howard in 1818. In 1825 George Rennie and his brother, John, proposed the construction of The Grand Imperial Ship Canal, between Deptford and Portsmouth, to reduce transit time from the capital to the south coast from 12 days to 24 hours.
20th century
The population increased from 3,226 in 1921 to 9,336 in 1939. During the First World War, several hundred men from the 21st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers were billeted in the village. In 1940 and 1941, several buildings in Ashtead suffered damage as a result of enemy bombing during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.
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