Location and Key Facts

Where is Ashford?

Stick a pin in the middle of a map of Kent, and you’ll find Ashford.

It’s everything you want from an urban area, yet provides the very best of town and country. Step out of Ashford and you will find the idyllic Kent countryside, market towns like Tenterden, award-winning vineyards and heritage houses and railways.

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Ashford Map

By train

Undoubtedly, Ashford’s first class national and international transport links play a major part in the town’s success. Southeastern’s Ashford to London service from Ashford International train station is just 38 minutes by high speed rail.

By road

Ashford’s Kent location on the M20 corridor provides fast access to the rest of the county, the UK or across the English Channel by road, and junction 10a is expanding with a £104m project unlocking potential for further growth.

By air

London’s two main airports are within easy reach. By car, Gatwick is an hour away with Heathrow only a further 30 minutes around the M25.

When looking Ashford, location is everything, making it the smart move for your home or business. However you choose to travel, business leaders on tight schedules can get where they need to be quickly and conveniently.

Ashford key facts

  • Voted Kent’s number one business location

  • 38 minutes from London

  • Easy access to mainland Europe

  • Two motorway junctions onto M20, and new junction 10a opened at the end of 2019

  • £14.7 million levelling up funding in Ashford

  • Home to 53 ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ primary and secondary schools

  • South Ashford Garden Community (SAGC), three developments representing 7,250 new homes

  • House prices in Ashford around a third cheaper than London (UK House Price Index, October 2022)

  • Ashford has 410 food and drink enterprises, the largest cluster in Kent