Population 321 (2011) Civil parish Ashford Carbonel Region West Midlands Local time Sunday 1:52 PM UK parliament constituency Ludlow | OS grid reference SO5270 Ceremonial county Shropshire Country England Dialling code 01584 | |
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Ashford Carbonell (or Ashford Carbonel) is a village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England, near the county border with Herefordshire. Unusually the parish council welcome 60mph driving throughout the village, having vetoed all attempts to restrict the road to 30mph.
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Map of Ashford Carbonel, Ludlow, UK
The village lies 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the market town of Ludlow, on the eastern side of the River Teme, facing the smaller Ashford Bowdler. The river acts as the boundary between the parishes of Ashford Bowdler and Ashford Carbonel, and is crossed locally by Ashford Bridge, which takes the Caynham Road from the A49 towards Caynham.
The civil parish (which is formally named Ashford Carbonel) had a population of 321 as recorded in the 2011 census; the area covered by the parish is 635 hectares (1,570 acres).
History
Ashford Carbonell formed part of the hundred of Culvestan, which in the 12th century became Munslow. Part of the parish (Huntington and The Serpent) however instead became part of the hundred of Stottesdon.
Huntington was a manor mentioned (separately to Ashford Carbonell) in the Domesday Book (1086). Today it is a small hamlet just outside the village. The Serpent is a former pub which gave its name to a crossroads on the Caynham Road, located midway between the villages of Ashford Carbonell and Caynham but within the parish of Ashford Carbonel.
The parish church, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene, is Norman in origin.
Education
On 1 November 2011, a new £3m primary school (the "Bishop Hooper School") opened in the village, which replaced both village's previous primary school and the primary school in neighbouring Caynham.