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Books about Ashtead

These books are grouped into 2 sections: In-Print and Out-of-Print. In each section the books are listed in reverse order of publication date.
In-Print books are available from many shops in the village (with the best selection being in the library), the Leatherhead & District Local History Society and, as they say, 'from all good book sellers', including Amazon logo


Just click on the books below or their links to go to Amazon's relevant pages.
in print Book cover: Ashtead in Focus Ashtead in Focus
Photographs by Albert C. Pruden, compiled by K. Combeer:
Published 2003 by Mole Valley Press with Ashtead Residents' Association, 96 pages, paperback
See also the ashtead at magazine articles:
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Book cover: The Story of St Giles' School Ashtead The Story of St Giles' School Ashtead
Published 2002 by St Giles' School, 94 pages, paperback
See also the ashtead at Harvest 2002 magazine article Ashtead Authors
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Book cover: Ashtead Horticultural Society Ashtead Horticultural Society - The First 125 years, 1875 to 2000
Published 2000 by Ashtead Horticultural Society, 46 pages, paperback
See also What else is called Ashtead?: Fuschia
See also Ashtead Activity for more details on Ashtead Horticultural Society and other groups
See also Beverley Nichols
See also the ashtead at Harvest 2002 magazine article Ashtead Authors
in print Book cover: Images of England: Ashtead Images of England: Ashtead
Jane E.M. Jones & Ken Rogers: Published 1999 by Tempus Publishing Limited, 128 pages, paperback
Also Reprinted 2000
With over 200 photographs of Ashtead
See also George Harry Hunt
See also John Payne Jennings
See also Samuel Pepys
See also Captain Henry Reynolds VC, MC
in print Book cover: Ashtead: The Street Ashtead: The Street in the 1920s
Meredith Worsfold: Published 1998 by Meredith Worsfold, 20 pages, paperback
See a copy of the book on-line on the Ashtead Resident Society website
See also the ashtead at magazine articles:
in print Book cover: A History of Ashtead A History of Ashtead
J.C. Stuttard: Published 1995 by Leatherhead & District Local History Society, 247 pages, paperback
This book gives a full description of the history of the area.
See also the ashtead at magazine articles:
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Leaflet cover: What to look at in Ashtead What to look at in Ashtead : an elementary guide for the curious, folded A4 sheet
Published 1979 by Leatherhead & District Local History Society

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Whilst the following books are unavailable we put them here for reference. At present we do not list available maps or videos

Book cover: A Week of Celebration A Week of Celebration
Published privately 2006, 44 pages, hardback
132 of the best photographs of the St George's Church Centenary Celebration that took place from 18-23 April 2006
Ashtead Common National Nature Reserve Management Plan - April 2000 to March 2005
Corporation of London: Published 2001 by Corporation of London
See also Corporation of London: Ashtead Common
Available online: Ashtead Common National Nature Reserve Management Plan - Warning: this file is 432k big
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Book cover: Ashtead Potters 100 Years of Education at Parsons Mead School
Barbara Dawson: Published 1997
The school closed suddenly on 7 July 2006 and two websites created. Parsons Mead Photos and Parsons Mead Action Group
Ashtead Common Management Plan
Corporation of London: Published 1995 by Corporation of London
See also Corporation of London: Ashtead Common
Ashtead Common Management Plan : first draft for public consultation
Lower Mole Countryside Management Project: Published 1991 by Surrey County Council
See also Corporation of London: Ashtead Common
Book cover: Ashtead Potters Ashtead Potters Ltd in Surrey, 1923-1935
Edward Hallam: Published 1990 by Hallam Publishing, 64 pages, paperback, ISBN 0951600702
See also What else is called Ashtead?: Pottery, which includes links for more books
Book cover: Bygone Ashtead Bygone Ashtead
G.J. Gollin: Published 1987 by G.J. Gollin, 135 pages hardback, ISBN 0951260707
Also Reprinted 1988 with minor corrections
The book is written in two parts. Part I is a reprint of 17 papers previously published in Special Paper No.2 in 1977 and in the Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society - Volume 4, numbers 2 to 9
See also the ashtead at magazine articles:
Guiding in Ashtead from 1919 to 1985
Andree Hicks: Published 1985 by 1st Ashtead Guides

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Book cover: Ashtead - a village transformed Ashtead - a village transformed : a history of Ashtead from the earliest times
A.A. Jackson: Published 1977 by Leatherhead & District Local History Society, 237 pages, paperback, ISBN 0950600903
Also Reprinted 1978, second impression 1979
The Dame, The Prison and the Pewterer - the Manor of Little Ashtead 1671-1851
G.J. Gollin: Published 1977 by Leatherhead & District Local History Society, 15 pages, paperback
See a copy of the book on-line on the Dackombe Family History & Genealogy website
St Giles' church, Ashtead
Neil Britton: Published 1955 by British Publishing Co., 11 pages
Also Published 1966, 11 pages and 1970 9 pages, , ISBN-10: 0714005398, ISBN-13: 978-0714005393
The history of Ashtead
Jean Baumann: Published 1959
St Giles Church, Ashtead - An historical guide
Published 1955 by British Publishing Co., Gloucester, 12 pages
Also published 1966 by British Publishing Co., Gloucester, 12 pages
City Of London Freemen's School 1854 - 1954
Published 1954, 52 pages
Old buildings of Leatherhead, Ashtead, Bookham & Fetcham - a list of the surviving examples selected for their architectural, historical or artistic interest; including locations of historical significance
Published 1952 by Leatherhead & District Countryside Protection Society, 8 pages; 8 illustrations from pen drawing by C.J. Songhurst
Reprinted, with corrections, from the proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society, 1950
Ashtead Church : its story and memories
Edmund J. Austin: Published 1933 by Birch & Whittington, 54 pages
A review of the book can by found in Surrey Archæological Collections Vol. XLI (41), 1933
An Ashtead argument : being a brief history of the village in verse enumerating the principal features and historic events from the time of the Saxons down to the present day
St Anthony: Published 1932 by R.W. Burl, 26 pages, hardback
According to the British Library Edmund J. Austin used the pseudonym St Anthony
The residential areas of Surrey : the official guide to the Ashtead, Banstead, Bookham, Cobham, Ewell district
Published 1930 by The Abbey Publicity Service
The "Borough" Guide to Epsom, Ewell and Ashtead : the official guide
Cuthbert Wilkinson?: Published c1920 by Ed E.J. Burrow
Ashtead Parish Magazine - 1904-1907
Published 1907
Bound copy of all the magazines, but without the serialised story that was with the originals each month
Ashtead past and present - A series of notes contributed to the Ashtead Parish Magazine between March, 1902, and July, 1903, by a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, etc.
Published 1903
Some records of the Ashtead estate and of it Howard possessors - with notices of Elford, Castle Rising, Levens, and Charlton, with genealogical tables
Francis Edward Paget: Privately printed 1873 by A.C. Lomax, Lichfield, 241 pages
An act for vesting the Manor of Ashtead, otherwise Great Ashtead, and messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments in the County of Surry, therein mentioned, in trustees, to be sold
Statutes Great Britain: Published 1789

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The City of London Freemen's School Ashtead Park Surrey
Published by Corporation of London
Paul's Place, Ashtead

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See also ashteadvillage
See also St Giles' Church
See also Photographs of St Giles' Church page
See list of other 'Historical' articles from ashtead at
See also Ashted, Birmingham
See also Ashtead - from British History Online, 'Parishes: Ashtead', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 247-252
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