The Kentish Stour Countryside Project has installed 12 interpretative panels in the Ashford Green Corridor. Funding for the panels was made available by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rail Link Countryside Initiative.

The panels interpret the history and wildlife of the area and some of the information has come from local people. Here are 12 questions, based on the information on the panels, all about locations just a short walk from the centre of Ashford. If you can't be bothered to look at all the panels, the answers are at the bottom of the article.

1. Where is the water mill site that is recorded as having a mill in the Domesday book of 1086?

2. Why is one part of Ashford called Gas House Fields?

3. Where are there old pollarded willows probably dating from when the land was agricultural?

4. Where is there a Scheduled Ancient Monument?

5. What is the name of Ashford's secret river?

6. Where was the largest open air 'lido' (swimming pool) in the country, at the time, located?

7. Where does Buxford get its name from?

8. Where is the location that a number of people were burnt for their religious beliefs in the 16^th century?

9. Where is the Hubert Fountain and where did it come from?

10. Where did the materials come from to build Boys Hall?

11. Where are cricket bat willows located?

12. Where is Anthony Gormley's (creator of Angel of the North) sculpture?

Answers

1. Pledges Mill on Mace Lane, now a nightclub.

2. South Eastern Railway Company gas works shown on 19^th century maps.

3. Civic Centre North Park, where they create good habitats for wildlife.

4. Boy's Hall Moat, now a good site for grass snakes.

5. The Aylesford Stream, that flows through Willesborough.

6. Bowen's Field, next to Victoria Park.

7. Deer (bucks) crossing the river (ford).

8. Queen Mother's Park.

9. Victoria Park, previously at Olantigh House and the Second Great International Exhibition in London in the 1850's.

10. From the old Boy's Hall now a scheduled Ancient Monument on the other side of the Rail Link.

11. Little Burton next to Ashford Rugby Club.