About the road



Hoselands Hill was a beneficiary of the council's decision in 1907 to engage in public works to help the unemployed in the recession then. Local landowners were supportive, and donated land for widening. Mr Morton of Fairby (the tenant of Hottsfield) even supplied 17½ days of team labour free of charge. Up to 32 men at a time found work here. They widened the road and put down a new rolled flint surface. The photo shows the road was still narrow even after widening, so you wonder how narrow the road was before then! Hartley's rapid growth led to plans to widen the road again in 1924, Dartford RDC got a grant of £293 from the Ministry of Transport towards the £585 cost. The improvements also included kerbing, the addition of a footpath and sloping of the banks. The road was made up of best blue Guernsey Granite and surface tarred, large granite chips were used to prevent slipping. By 1938 the road had acquired white lines in the middle and then catseyes in 1946.

Subject | Details |
| Length of Roads | Part of Ash Road (1.8 miles / 2.9km) |
| KCC Reference: | Part of C252 (Class C carriageway, adopted) |
| Acreage: | Part of urban Ash Road 28.43a (11.51 ha) |
| Houses: | 29 |
| Density: | Part of urban Ash Road 4.2 houses/acre (10.3 houses/ha) Hartley average 4.9 houses/acre |
| Population (2011): | 109 (excludes Tudor House, The Birches) |