History
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mark was designed by the architect C.N. Beazley and built in 1864-65.
Downe House School, a girls' boarding school, has been in Cold Ash since 1922. It was founded in 1907 by Olive Willis and moved to the Cloisters in Cold Ash when its original site, Downe House, Charles Darwin's former home near Bromley in Kent, became too small for the school.
Cold Ash started off as a cattle track, which houses got built around and then a proper road (without foundations, so driving is sometimes slow around the area) was built. Many of the houses are from the Victorian era, when it was used for farm land. Whilst now the houses are mainly occupied by the elderly and doctors, there are still some, such as Ashmore Green Farm, in the area.
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