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continues in Ashford as in many other villages in the Peak District. Each year slabs of clay are decorated by village volunteers using petals, leaves and other plants to create a picture. The finished designs are then displayed at the six wells around the village and the event is marked by a church
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with an attached stone sheepwash: lambs were placed in the pen on one side of the river and the ewes swam across the river to get to them, while being pushed underwater by the shepherds to clean the fleece before shearing. Large trout inhabit the waters of the Wye around the bridge. It is a
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above the south doorway. In the churchyard lies the base and stump of a Grade-II-listed churchyard cross, variously dated to the 14th or 15th century. Behind the church are traces of a moat, all that remains of a fortified house which was the home of
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for their historic or architectural interest. None are listed as Grade I, but there are two structures (Ashford Hall and Sheepwash Bridge) that are Grade II*. All the others, including Thornbridge Hall and the parish church, are Grade II.
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The village passed to the Cavendish family in the 16th century (from the Nevilles) and was finally sold off in the 1950s to pay
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Ashford Hall dates from 1785, though alterations were made in about 1840. It is a five-bay, three-storey building of
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In 1786, Ashford had mills for carving and polishing the local black marble. By 1848, it had 950 inhabitants.
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Thornbridge Hall dates from the 18th century, but was enlarged in 1871 and radically altered in a
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service and procession through the village to bless the wells. The event takes place around
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was mostly rebuilt in 1868–70 but has a partly 13th-century tower, a 14th-century north
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In the Domesday Book, Ashford was described as one of the locations in the area where
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In the 2011 census, Ashford-in-the-Water was 99.5% White, and 0.2% Asian.
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in the village until 1801. Some of these are preserved in the
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The Sheepwash Bridge, which dates from the 17th century, is a
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Within Ashford's civil parish are 62 structures that are
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Ashford, Derbyshire

The parish church of the Holy Trinity
Ashford-in-the-Water is located in Derbyshire
Derbyshire
OS grid reference
SK194697
District
Derbyshire Dales
Shire county
Derbyshire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
DE45
Police
Derbyshire
Fire
Derbyshire
Ambulance
East Midlands
UK Parliament
Derbyshire Dales
UK
England
Derbyshire

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