St Mary's Parish Church, also known as the Church of St Mary the Virgin, in

Ashford, Kent Ashford is a town in the county of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Great Stour at the southern or Escarpment, scarp edge of the North Downs, about southeast of central London and northwest of Folkestone by road. In the ...

, England, dates to the late 13th century. It is now

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. There has been a church on the site since at least 1086, for one was mentioned in the

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.Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
– Ashford's Heritage Cranbrook native Comfort Starr, one of the founding members of

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, was a warden at the church in the early 17th century.''New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'', Volume 3 (1913), p. 1099

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* Ashford, St Mary's 13th-century churches Ashford, Kent {{England-church-stub

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