The Ashford Green Corridor is both a wildlife corridor, with riverside habitats linking town and countryside, and a green transport corridor, providing routes for walkers and cyclists through its green spaces. Our Community Heritage Project has revealed that it is also a corridor linking the present with the past - a gateway to Ashford's heritage.

We worked with local residents, community groups and schools to record the unwritten history of the Green Corridor. The project focused on oral history - people's own recollections and memories of places as they used to be and events affecting the town's rivers and associated landscapes. These contributions from the community were compiled, together with other historical information, in a heritage text that takes you on a journey into the past, along the course of Ashford's rivers.

Click here to download the text in full.