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Ashford is a town in Kent, England. It has a population of 102,000 and is administered by Ashford Borough Council .

Ashford is 59 miles from London and is on the Channel Tunnel rail link, where trains stop at Ashford International station. Ashford is also on the M20 motorway.

Ashford's Member of Parliament is Damian Green (Conservative).

Ashford is twinned with Bad Münstereifel in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Fougères in Brittany.

Essentially a modern town, little is left of the old Ashford, apart from some half-timbered buildings in Middle Row and around the churchyard in the town centre. A number of old buildings were removed to make way for the controversial ring road around the centre, built in the early 1970s.

Ashford's recent history is linked to its status as an important railway junction for the lines between London and Folkestone/Dover and between East Sussex and North Kent. As well as being a stop on the Paris/Brussels to London high speed link, it is home to many commuters who take the train to work in London.

1 Trivia

Simone Weil, the French philosopher, died in Grosvenor Sanatorium, Ashford, in 1943, and is buried in the town's Bybrook Cemetery. Weil restricted herself to the meagre war-time diet she imagined her compatriots back in France would be eating; a coroner therefore recorded a suicide verdict when her condition was exacerbated by malnourishment. A road in Ashford is named after her.

1.1 Geography

Ashford is located at 51°09'00" North, 00°53'00" West (51.1500, -0.8833) ¹. The borough of Ashford covers a large area of rural mid Kent, and its agricultural market is one of the most important in the county.

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