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Ashdon – books and journals on shelves
| Shelfmark | Author | Title | Date | Pages | Illus? | Reading |
| E.333.333 | Fenn & Co | The Ashdon, Bartlow & Radwinter Estate of the Right Hon The Countess of Warwick | 1896 | c40 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.333.333 | Fenn & Co | Plan Shewing the Whole Estate. The Right Hon The Countess of Warwick’s Essex Estates,, portion in the parishes of Ashdon, Bartlow & Radwinter. | 1896 | 1 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.ASH | Knight, Frank & Rutley | Particulars, Plan, and Conditions of Sale of 13 Farms … in Ashdon, Radwinter Bartlow End & Castle Camps | 1910 | 33 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.ASH.301.55 | Duncan Evans | Ashdon and The Agricultural Labourers Strike, 1914 | 1992 | 29 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.ASH.331 | Reg Groves | Sharpen the Sickle | 1949 | 256 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.ASH 331.89 | Roy Brazier | The Empty Fields: the agricultural strike of 1914 | 1989 | 57 | Yes | |
| E.ASH.4 | Jean Gumbrell (ed) | Ashdon’s Millenium People | 2001 | 48 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.ASH.4 | Robert Gibson | Annals of Ashdon. No Ordinary Village | 1988 | 346 | Yes | Borrowable |
| E.ASH.4 | Christopher Ketteridge and Spike Mays | Five Miles from Bunkum | 1972 | 207 | Yes | Borrowable |
| E.ASH.4 | Angela Green | Ashdon. A History of an Essex Village | 1989 | 233 | Yes | Borrowable |
| E.ASH.7.711.4 | Uttlesford District Council | Ashdon Conservation Area Appraisal and Draft Management Proposals | 2012 | 43 | Yes | |
| E.ASH.4.726.5 | Philip GM Dickinson | The Parish Church of All Saints Ashdon Essex | 1963 | 36 | Yes | |
| E.929.71 | Gervers, Michael | The cartulary of the knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England : secunda camera : Essex | 1982 | 84+735 | yes | Ref only |
| LS96 | Ashdon Village Magazine – onging | Ref only | ||||
| E.920.MAY | Spike Mays | Last Post | 1974 | 210 | Yes | Borrowable |
| E.920.MAY | Spike Mays | Reuben’s Corner | 1969 | 223 | Yes | Borrowable |
| E.920.MAY | Spike Mays | Return to Anglia | 1986 | 207 | Yes | Borrowable |
| E.920.MAYS | Spike Mays | The Last of the First | 1997 | 256 | No | Ref only |
Ashdon – leaflets and other small items in its Village box
| Shelfmark | Author | Title | Date | Pages | Illus? | Reading |
| Ashdon | Fenn & Co | Sale particulars for sale of Countess of Warwick’s Essex Estates, in Ashdon, Bartlow & Radwinter | 1896 | 226 | Yes | Ref only |
| Ashdon | The Haylocks of Saffron Walden & Ashdon: genealogical tree, 1729 to 1973 | 1 | No | Ref only | ||
| Agreement between J Waterfield and Mr Clowes for hire of Mortimers Farm in Ashdon | 1909 | 1 | No | Ref only | ||
| Postcard of war memorial dedication (?) 23 Oct 1921 | 1921 | 1 | Yes | |||
| All Saints Ashdon Monumental Inscriptions, inside and outside | n.d. | c.45 | No | Ref only | ||
| Ashdon | The Times & other papers | Ashdon Meteorite | 1923 | 7 | Yes | Ref only |
| Ashdon & Sewards End | Christopher Rudd | “Woodside” A Small Agricultural Holding | c.1995 | 10 | Yes | Ref only |
| Ashdon & Sewards End | Christopher Rudd | Rural Recollections | 13 | No | Ref only | |
| Ashdon | Philip GM Dickinson | The Parish Church of All Saints Ashdon | 1963 | 36 | Yes | Ref only |
| E.ASH.4.726.5 | Philip GM Dickinson | The Parish Church of All Saints Ashdon | 1977 | 40 | Yes | Ref only |
| Ashdon | Philip GM Dickinson | The Parish Church of All Saints Ashdon | 1977 | 40 | Yes | Borrowable |
| Ashdon | Uttlesford District Council | Rural Areas District Plan – Part Two, Draft for Consultation – Ashdon | 1979 | 11 | Map | Ref only |
| Ashdon | Uttlesford District Council | Rural Areas District Plan – Part Two – Ashdon (2 copies) | 1980 | 9 | Map | Ref only |
| Jane Wess | The Logic Demonstrators of the 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), a reprint from Annals of Science | 1997 | 21 | Yes | Ref only | |
| Cyril Hart | The Site of Assundun | 1968 | 12 | No | Ref only | |
| E.Ash.7.942 | Miller Christy | The Battle of Assundun: Where was it Fought? | 1925 | 23 | Yes | ref only |
| Ashdon | CA Mummery | Shadwell Wood reserve, Ashdon | 1982 | 3 | Yes | Ref only |
| The Ashdon (Essex) Hoard and the Currency of the Southern Danelaw in the late Ninth Century | 1990 | 26 | No | Ref only | ||
| Joan Warner | Kham Tibetan House | 1983 | 2 | No | Ref only | |
| Widow killed in rescue effort | 1944 | 2 | Ref only | |||
| Newspapers | Glint of silver first hint of treasure haul | 1984 | 3 | Yes | Ref only | |
| Account of an Ancient Kiln excavated in the Parish of Ashdon | 1852 | 4 | Yes | |||
| Newspaper cuttings | Eric Thompson, Leslie & Joy Bidwell, Ray Tabor | 3 | Yes | Ref only | ||
| Notes on “Little Mortimers” | 1960s | 1 | No | Ref only | ||
| Ashdon Village Museum | Afternoon tea with Beatrix Potter (advert) | n.d. | 1 | Yes | Ref only | |
| Ashdon Photographs & Family tree | 2016 | 6 | Yes | Ref only |
Anstey – books and journals on shelves
| Shelfmark | Author | Title | Date | Pages | Illus? | Reading |
| E.ANS.287 | S & P Blackaby | Anstey Chapel The First 100 years 1903-2003 | 2003 | c48 | Yes | Ref only |