New Town

See also: new town and Newtown

English

Proper noun

New Town

  1. A suburb of Ashford, Kent, England, south-east of the town centre (OS grid ref TR0141). Also spelt Newtown. [1]
    • 1947 November and December, “Ashford Works Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:
      The autumn of the year 1850 also saw the establishment of the Carriage & Wagon Department at Ashford, by which time the adjacent railway village had been extended by another sixty houses. This village at first was known as Alfred Town but later became Ashford New Town.

References
  1. OS: Kent
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