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Ashted

Possibly the third most common spelling of Ashtead and Ashstead is Ashted, it was used frequently in the early 1800s for our village. See Ashtead for details of this and other spellings.
Ashted was also a village in Warwickshire and is now absorbed into Birmingham city itself. Virtually all that remains is Ashtead Circus on the ring road, some locks and a tunnel as well as a church. Other churches, a brewery and roads have gone.
Just as our Ashtead was sometimes spelt Ashted, so, it seems, Ashted too has been Ashtead and in the book Our Brum - Volume 3 we're told it was spelt Ashstead too! It is not believed that there is a connection between the places, but in hunting for all things Ashtead we have come across things Ashted and include them here for your convenience.

The British Library has a book entitled Selection of Psalms and Hymns used by the congregations of St Mary's Chapel, Birmingham, and St James's Chapel, Ashtead. (Seventh edition.) published 1807 by Beilby, Knott, & Beilby: Birmingham. 404 pages

Many thanks to Andrew Spencer, see his excellent work on Birmingham Churches, for the following snippets

1. In The Making of Victorian Birmingham, Victor Skipp, 1983, twice spells it Ashsted
2. According to Mckenna's Birmingham Street Names the area was named after Dr John Ash, a physician who founded the General Hospital. His Attorney Brook later developed it into a desirable residential area
3. However, John Sanders in his school history of Birmingham is more critical, claiming that Ash, having bought the land from the Holt family, erected a huge manor for himself and promptly went bust, moving back to London. The manor was demolished and the housing estate then built on the land.

For more information about Ashted see Virtual Brum and Heartlands Local History Society

• Author - George Mogridge aka Old Humphrey
• Brewery & Pub - Ashted Brewery Co Ltd, Royal Oak
• Canal - Ashted Lock, Ashted Flight and Ashted Tunnel
• Coaches - Ashted Coaches of Stechford
• Football - Ashted Rovers AFC
• Photographers - Cottrell of Ashtead Row
• Roads & Places
• Working Men's Association - Ashted Working Men's Association

Author

George Mogridge, 17 February 1787, Ashted, Birmingham, England - 2 November 1854, Hastings, England

• From 1833 George Mogridge was a prolific writer for The Religious Tract Society, using the pseudonym Old Humphrey

Brewery & Pub

For Sayers Ashtead Brewery see What else is called Ashtead?

• Historical Manuscripts Commission
• Genealogy Data: John Marrian

Canal

Ashted Flight consists of 6 locks (Ashted Locks), with Ashted Tunnel one lock from the northern end. There are some good pictures of it on the web including

• Gerry Cork: Cruising the Birmingham Canal Navigations
• freefoto also have a good collection of photographs of the tunnel, locks and much more besides

		Canal City Souvenir - an Introduction to the canals of Birmingham & the Black Country Michael Pearson: Published 1998 by J.M. Pearson & Son, 48 pages, paperback, ISBN 0907864775 p12-13: Notes on the Locks and picture of the tunnel
		Canal Tunnels - Looking at Inland Waterways John Gaggs: Published 1978, 32 pages, paperback Covers many tunnels including Ashted
		The Other Sixty Miles - A survey of the abandoned canals of Birmingham and the Black Country Richard Chester-Browne: Published 1981 & 1991 by Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, 48 pages, paperback p13: A map showing the Digbeth Branch with the 6 Ashted Locks and Tunnel

Coaches

Ashted Coaches of Stechford, Birmingham

Football

Ashted Rovers AFC

Photographers

Joseph Cottrell, 176 Ashted Row

Roads & Places

• Ashstead

  Our Brum - Volume 3 Carl Chinn: Published 1999 by Birmingham Evening Mail, 144 pages, paperback Including Ashstead, Greet, Moseley, Hampstead, Bordesley

• Ashted
  • St Joseph's Church and School, Nechells: Aston, Ashted, Bloomsbury, Duddeston, Saltley, Witton and Ward End
  • St James the Less, Ashted, County of Warwick, District of Aston, Birmingham, C of E, founded 1789, demolished c1956
    • Andrew Spencer: Birmingham Churches
    • RootsWeb.com: answer
    • Tracing Your Ancestors in Birmingham (TYAIB): C of E Church Records
    • Gen UKI: Birmingham's places of worship as of 1858
  • St Vincent de Paul, Ashted and Vauxhall, Nechells Parkway, Birmingham B7 4JY, Roman Catholic, since 1883
    • Birmingham Parishes: Ashted & Vauxhall
    • Tracing Your Ancestors in Birmingham (TYAIB): Roman Catholic Church Records
  • Astead Chapel, erected 1790, token is by P. Kempson, maker of buttons, medals &c, Birmingham

    

    Number 147 in Richard Dalton & Samuel H Hamer's The Provincial token-coinage of the 18th century, illustrated

  • Ashted

    Take Heart Birmingham - People, History and Change in Birmingham's heartlands Elizabeth Frostick & Lucy Harland: Published 1993 by Hutton Press, 104 pages, paperback, ISBN 1872167489 Including Ashted, Bordesley, Nechells, Saltley

• Ashted Circus, roundabout on A47 Jennens Road, A47 Nechells Parkway, A4540 Dartmouth Middleway, A4540 Lawley Middleway
• Ashted Lockway, Birmingham, B7, England

• Ashted Row probably no longer exists
  • sometimes called Ashtead Row, and also seen as such on the receiving office stamp on envelopes of 1846 and 1857
  • There are 19th Century tokens of Chas. Hadduck of Ashted Row, dealer in Tea Coffee & Provisions

    

  • and Royal Oak Ashted Row, Albert Howes, Holders Ales; Lewis Rose. Diesinker Miller St B'Ham

    

  • Ashted Row Picture Palace

    Entertainment in Birmingham - on Old Postcards John Marks: Published 2000 by Reflections of a Bygone Age, 36 pages, paperback, ISBN 1900138344 has a double page picture of Ashted Row Picture Palace (1912-1958)

  • Brewers: The Birmingham Vinegar Brewing Company Limited, 2 Ashted Row, 1878; Ashted Row, 1899
  • Brewers: Holbrooks Ltd (Pure Malt Vinegar Brewers), Ashted Row, 1901
  • Confectioner: Joseph Cottrell, 176 Ashted Row, Kelly's directory 1868
  • Portrait photographer: Joseph Cottrell, 176 Ashted Row, Kelly's directory 1888
  • Portrait photographer: Herbert William Cottrell, 176 Ashted Row, c1900-1901, no longer there between 1906-1908
  • Belmont Row Chapel, Belmont Row, corner of Ashted Row, Methodist, before 1830, mentioned in Andrew Spencer: Birmingham Churches
• Ashted Walk, Birmingham, B7, England
• Lower Ashted
  • Alan Stanier: Birmingham
• For Ashted roads not in Birmingham see Ashtead: Roads & Places

My Life In Three Counties H.W. Pooler: Published 1950 by Christopher Johnson, 247 pages, hardback This book records the pilgrimage through life of the author during his life as a doctor in Shropshire, Staffordshire (Birmingham) and Derbyshire. It includes a map of Ashted and Vauxhall, c1835

Ashted Working Men's Association

A Lecture on Astronomy - Delivered In The Town Hall, Birmingham, June 9th 1857 J.B. Podmore: Published 1858 by Cornish Brothers, 46 pages, hardback? Published (By Request) for the benefit of Ashted Working Men's Association and School Improvements. Containing Important Communications From The Highest Authorities Upon The Expected Comet of 1556 To Which Is Added An Appendix, With Definitions, Diagrams, and Explanatory Notes.

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