5 Sights in Ashford, United Kingdom (with Map and Images)

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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Ashford, United Kingdom! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Ashford. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

1. Chilham Castle

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Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174, although it may have been built on an older Anglo-Saxon fortification. The manor house was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Digges. Various renovations and improvements to the Manor House and surrounding gardens took place in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Wikipedia: Chilham Castle (EN)

2. Field Mill

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The River Stour has been used for centuries as a source of power. Many different processes were performed by the use of water power:- Corn milling, fulling, paper making and electricity generation. Many of the mills survive today as house conversions, with two of them still working commercially.

Wikipedia: Stour watermills (EN)

3. Willesborough Windmill

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Willesborough Windmill

New Mill is a Grade II* listed smock mill in Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent. It stands just west of junction 10 of the M20 motorway. It was built in 1869 and is now a museum open to the public.

Wikipedia: New Mill, Willesborough (EN)

4. Charing Windmill

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Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed smock windmill, now converted to a house, on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.

Wikipedia: Charing Windmill (EN)

5. Church of St. Mary's Eastwell

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St Mary's Church is a ruined former Church of England parish church, in the grounds of Eastwell Park in the hamlet of Eastwell, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is a Scheduled monument. The ruins have been in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches charity since they took over the freehold on 20 March 1980.

Wikipedia: St Mary's Church, Eastwell (EN)

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