The Maidstone turnpike passed through a heavily wooded region of the parish, leaving to its north small areas of the nineteen-acre Noah’s Rough, which was part of Pells Farm, and of Peckham Wood and to its south three of the twenty-eight acres of Abbots Wood. That wood was rather oddly divided between three different owners. A road, now reduced to a footpath that ran diagonally through it from Stansted. Lane to the turnpike had evidently been part of the old road from Farningham to Wrotham, from which the line of the turnpike had diverged in the vicinity of the Porto Bello at Kingsdown.
   South Ash Farm’s forty-two acres of woodland in the parish were much dispersed, comprising Mace Wood, of thirteen acres, Hatch Wood, of eight acres, and eleven other bits and pieces. Ash Place Farm had seventy-eight wooded acres; those included the parish’s third major wood, the fifty-one acre White Ash Wood, of which recent felling has left more of form than of substance.
   In the north-westerly reaches of Ash, Mr Lance’s Old House Farm included the twenty-one acre Red Libbets Wood, grubbed not many years ago, and the twelve-acre Chapel Wood, where there has been a little recent grubbing, but for ‘archaeological rather than 

agricultural purposes. Eastwards, from the Ash Road, Mr Lance owned with his North Ash Farm the small Redhill Wood, six acres in extent. The rival North Ash, or Turner’s, Farm was more afforested, with the Nine Horses Wood, of eighteen acres, Spring Croft Wood, of twelve acres, and Pond Wood, of five acres. Some of this woodland now provides an amenity for New Ash Green.
   There were only a dozen odd acres of woodland on Mr Whitaker’s West Yoke Farm, about half of them being accounted for by Middle Field Wood. The farm at West Yoke owned by the Cox family had less than three acres of wood in Ash, but this seeming dearth was illusory; its land extended into Fawkham parish and there included Loaves and Shortledge Woods, together some twenty-seven acres.
   The Selbys of Ightham Mote owned as part of their Pennis estate the nineteen-acre North Lands Wood and the then extensive Pennis Wood, of which six acres overflowed from Fawkham into Ash. Mr Fulljames attributed their ownership to William Selby Esqr., who had died some fifteen years previously; the actual owner in 1792 was a John Browne who had changed his surname to Selby, but had not