Campsea Ashe   page loading

Village name is also written on local signage (and maps) as "Campsey Ash" so we don't know which version is correct.

Abbey Mill is a late 15th or early 16th century watermill. Campsea Ashe Park is a post-Mediaeval deer park that belonged to the (demolished) Campsea House.

The settlement is clustered around Wickham Market railway station (about 2.5 miles from Wickham Market town).

The station was named Wickham Market because when the railway was built, the developers were desperate to make out that they served every major location in the area, but were too tight to spend the money necessary to divert the route through that village. There is talk of renaming the station to more accurately reflect its location.

Livestock and furniture auction rooms are located beside the station whilst High House parkland is also nearby.

At the time of Domesday, Campsea and Ashe were separate villages ("Campeseia", "Campsea" or "Capesia" and distinctly, "Esce"). The two villages had amalgamated by the 13th century. On John Speed's 1610 map, it appears simply as "Ashe".