Ash, or Ash-next-Bidley, a parish in Kent, 4 miles from Fawkham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 7 SSE of Dartford. It includes the hamlets of Hodsol Street and West York, and part of Culverstone-Green ; and has a post office under Sevenoaks. Acreage, 3074; population, 619. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £619. The church is good, and there is a Baptist chapel. The telegraph office is at Wrotham.
