Economy and Amenities
An increased proportion of the village's population relies on the half-hourly 40-minute railway connection to Waterloo as well as providing local services and the small semi-military community of the post-war era has become a largely commuter settlement. While 417 employed residents worked at/from home in 2001, the remaining 1306 commuted, of which 682 responded they commuted less than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi).
Holly Lodge (Primary) School is next to Nexus Park, which has playground facilities and its footpath provides a less residential route between North Camp Station and Mytchett lake and Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre on the Basingstoke Canal, the canal's towpath runs through the village. Within the park are also recycling facilities. The Keogh Barracks on the Ash Ranges are in the ward boundaries.
South of the village are:
- Lakeside Park nature reserve
- Willow Park Fishery
- Ash Parish Allotments
Read more about this topic: Ash Vale
Famous quotes containing the word economy:
“War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely geared to war ... but there is not much war ... hardly any fighting ... yet every man a soldier from birth till death ... Men ... all men for fighting ... but no war, no wars to fight ... what is it, what does it mean?””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)