Ashford Places

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ASHFORD

(+ former suburbs of Ashford, Ashford South, Bayville)

The suburb of ASHFORD derives its name from Ashford House  and it was initially settled by Dr Charles George Everard who arrived in South Australia in 1836. The suburb was subdivided after Everard's death. 

The first subdivision was undertaken in 1919 and a second in the early 1920s. Charles Everard's home was converted to Ashford House School for Cerebral Palsied Children and opened on 18 April 1952. In 1975 the school became known as Ashford Special School.  [From 1998 Heritage Review]

Anzac Highway/ Bay Road: was known almost from the beginning of European settlement as the Bay Road. It was renamed Anzac Highway in November 1924 as a tribute to those who had served in the first world war.