Ash  ~ Guildford Borough western borders    1 mile east of Aldershot on the A323

Location for a home ~ Comment:  Aldershot outskirts  much with predictable suburban character benefited by good transport links and situated close to open country.

Present Day Aspect and Character

he once pleasant village of Ash stood on the sandy ridge north of the Hogs Back on the outskirts of Aldershot, but it has now all but been overwhelmed by its larger neighbour and is consequently swamped by suburbia.  Most symbolic of this was the development of its tiny green into an asphalted roundabout in the early 1950s.  However, the countryside across the fields towards the Hogs Back is still open, windswept and extensive.  Ash has a railway station just two stops from Guildford Station east bound on the Reading line.

St Peter's Church has early medieval walls and fragments with a C15 tower and C19 shingle spire.  It retains a churchyard which is somewhat  of a green oasis in an area that is otherwise rather overbuilt.  Hartshorn Cottage is situated in the village, notable for a plaque claiming its date of construction to be 1350.  It was once the Hartshorn Inn and supposedly one of Dick Turpin's ports of call.

Ash and Ash Vale have no obvious boundary between them, but building stops abruptly on the east side  by the many rifle ranges bordering Ash,  Cleygate and Pirbright Commons.  This is army country with large areas of these open spaces devoted to military training.  The boundary of Guildford Borough borders Surrey Heath just to the north of Ash Vale.