Ashridge Drive

The name

Ashridge Drive probably takes its name from Ashridge Golf Club. This Hertfordshire club is on the Ashridge Estate, and it was a regional qualifying course for the Open from 2003 to 2008.

Where the club's facts come from: Ashridge Golf Club, the club's own history.

How sure we are of the match: Likely

The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.

In the story

• Building the Estate: The plan
  No trunk road was ever built, but a strip of land between Muirfield Road and Ashridge Drive was kept clear for a main road for about thirty years, until the early 1980s (see Change and renewal).
• Change and renewal: The road that was never built
  An open strip between Muirfield Road and Ashridge Drive, already clear on early aerial photographs of the estate, was kept for an orbital route that Our Oxhey identifies as Ringway 3.

On the timeline

• August 1983 Three Rivers approves Ashridge Park, 75 low-cost homes between Muirfield Road and Ashridge Drive on land once kept for a main road.

Close by

Buildings

• Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve 60 m
• St Martin's Church, Muirfield Road 180 m
• Greenfields Primary School 220 m
• Prestwick Road Meadows 320 m
• The Grapevine (site) 330 m

Ancient woods

• Oxhey Woods, central part (Ashen Spring) 60 m
• Oxhey Woods, southern part (Abbott's Wood and Nanscot Wood) 360 m
• Oxhey Woods, central part (Beck Mason's Wood) 460 m

Walk stops

• Nanscot Wood 430 m
  Oxhey Woods walk
• The Dick Whittington 430 m
  Schools, churches and shops walk
• Abbott's Wood 540 m
  Oxhey Woods walk

Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.