Thornbridge Hall

A short distance away from Ashford is Thornbridge Hall, a Georgian T shaped house, extensively altered in 1871 and several times again during the following 50 years. In private hands till the mid 20th century, mostly under the ownership of Charles Boot, the founder of the Sheffield based contracting company, it became a teacher training college in 1940's, then a multi purpose educational centre , a conference centre, and is now privately owned and still used occasionally for conferences and weddings. It contains woodwork from Derwent Hall and Church. The garden contains large amounts of statuary acquired by Charles Boot. It is a grade 11 listed building.