Ash Green, Warwickshire
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| Ash Green shown within Warwickshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP335845 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | COVENTRY |
| Postcode district | CV7 |
| Dialling code | 024 |
| Police | Warwickshire |
| Fire | Warwickshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
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Ash Green is a suburban village in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England. Population details can be found under Allesley(West Midlands).
Ash Green is located 4 miles / 6.5 km) north of Coventry and 2.5 miles / 4 km south-south-east of Bedworth. It is bounded (approximately) by the M6 to the north, the A444 (Phoenix Way) to the east, Winding House Lane/Central Boulevard to the south and Keresley End (also known as Keresley Newlands) to the west.
The area makes up the western part of the ecclesiastical parish of Exhall St Giles (which extends from Black Bank in Bedworth to the north of Holbrooks in Coventry). The parish church of St Giles is located on the north-eastern edge of Ash Green, in Church Lane, near the junction with St Giles Road (which was known as Dead Lane in pre-Victorian times, as it was the route taken by funeral cortèges).
Although Ash Green was for centuries a hamlet centred on the crossroads formed by Royal Oak Lane, Vicarage Lane, Ash Green Lane and New Road, it has expanded throughout the course of the 20th century to the west and south to absorb (respectively) the nearby hamlets of Newland (which now exists only in the names Newland Lane and Newland Hall Farm) and Neal's Green, as testified by the "Ash Green" signs erected on New Road (near Haven Nursing Home) and at the junction of Wheelwright Lane and Winding House Lane. Although Neal's Green still appears on maps, it is a name that is now used very little locally.
The Breach Brook and the River Sowe are the principal waterways in the area.
Historically, Ash Green was a hamlet in the parish of Exhall; its history is therefore closely linked with that of the rest of the parish. More information can be found in the History section of the article on Exhall.
Of particular note in Ash Green is the parish church, parts of which date back to the 13th and 14th centuries (namely the nave, chancel and tower); Newland Hall Farm, built between the 15th and 18th centuries; Exhall House, which dates from the 18th century; and formerly Exhall Grange, a mainly 18th-century building with some elements that probably date from the 16th century.
Today, Ash Green forms part of the Coventry/Bedworth Urban Area, the conurbation that includes Coventry and Bedworth, and is in many regards a suburb of Coventry (as reflected by its inclusion in the Coventry post town); indeed, the Coventry city boundary lies immediately south of Ash Green along the former colliery railway line (adjacent to Winding House Lane and Central Boulevard), and the settlement of Ash Green is essentially contiguous with the Holbrooks district of Coventry.
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