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Timberlea Close, PULBOROUGH, RH20 3LD

The road owes its dead straight route to the 1816 enclosure of Ashington Common when the former meandering route was replaced. It subsequently became an important coaching route and was later designated the A24 which it remained until 1994 when a new bypass was opened to take away the gridlocked traffic and improve the life of the villagers.

One of the older buildings in the modern part of the village dating back to the 19th century along with Stoneville which was laidd out well back from the road.

Various models of telephone boxes and an old BP petrol pump adorn the front garden of this bungalow in Ashington. Seems to be a popular pastime in the village, see also Image

Containing an estate agents and a small Co-Op which also houses the village post office. It was built when the land between London Road, the old course of the A24, and the bypass, the new route, was developed after the opening of the latter in 1996.

Post Box RH20 20 Ashington. Ashington Post Office.

A residential road that runs between Church Lane and London Road that was built during the early 1960s as the village began expanding.

The northern part of the road was built in the 1950s on the site of an old saw mill, at the junction in the distance it turns south and heads towards Church Lane.

A cul de sac off London Road built when the new bypass to the east was constructed allowing the former farmland between to be developed into housing. London Road was the former Worthing-London turnpike.

The straight nature of the road is due to its course being marked out when the former Ashington Common, which it crossed, was enclosed in 1816. From that enclosure comes the origins of the modern village of Ashington which eventually built itself up around it, despite this part actually being in the parish of Washington until 1960. An important route in the age of coaching it retained this during the age of the motor car becoming the A24 which for many years was clogged by traffic until the construction of the bypass in the mid 1990s finally bought peace to the centre of the village. The houses on the left are Forge House, The Smithy and Anvil House built on the site of the former village blacksmith. The older dwellings beyond are Blacksmiths Cottages.