Ashford Places

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

Dr. Charles George Everard (1794-1876) arrived in South Australia in 1836 and named his Section 44 property, Ashford, but gave no reason for this in his diary. The Everard land soon included other Sections such as numbers 43 and 52 (see no.4-1) the first being portions of Everard Park and Black Forest, with Section 52 mostly Kurralta Park. Section 44 now includes parts of Everard Park and Forestville. 

Of the doctor's three sons, Charles John (1821-1892) followed in his father's footsteps of being more interested in farming than other pursuits. One authority suggests he subdivided some land in 1909, seventeen years after his death. His second wife, Charlotte Everard Everard (1829-1915), subdivided the Sections 44 and 45 of his estate and decided to name it Ashford. Only a little of Section 45 is in present Ashford.

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.