Ashlea

Sale 18th January 1898 Sale of 6 poles of ground to Simeon Hickman from Dan Janes.

Schedule. 6 poles of ground adjoining the garden of Simeon Hickman, sawyer, Lacey Green, previously belonging to Dan Janes, recently occupied by Maria Janes, adjacent to Simeon Hickmans garden on the north, on the east by the highroad (Main Road), on the south by cottages belonging to Mr. Alfred Ward of Loosley Row, on the East by land in the occupation of Mr Peter Floyd.

Ashlea was built on the site of 6 poles of ground

Ashlea was built on the west side of the Main Road, Lacey Green, next to the turning into Westlands Road.

1939 Register (census). Ashlea, Main Road, Lacey Green. Ernest Oakford, known as Hobbs, born 1911, chairmaker, and his wife, Rosalind Sophia Oakford, born 1913, (daughter )of Walt & Ruth Ginger.) Click Hobbs & Rosalind Oakford for their life story>

Extract from an article describing the village in 1961 by Joan West :-

"When I came to live here in 1961 a doctor held a weekly surgery at Ashlea, where Bill and Phyllis Dell lived". See Bill & Phyllis Dell.

Parish Magazine November 1955. Advertisement. Your Parish Newsagent. E. Oakford, Ash Lea, Lacey Green, for newspapers, periodicals. books and stationery. (click Hobbs & Rosalind Oakford for E. Oakford's life story.)

Ashlea became the home of Bill & Phyllis Dell

Hallmark December 1990. Planning Application. First floor rear extension, Ashlea, Main Road, Lacey Green.