Ashford Traffic Ticket Lawyer

Ashford, Connecticut

Ashford lies in the Quiet Corner — the wooded, lightly settled northeast of Connecticut, in Windham County. It is one of the older towns in the region, settled in 1710 and incorporated in 1714, and it took its name from Ashford in Kent, England. Long before it was a town, the ground it sits on carried traffic: the Old Connecticut Path, an early Native American route, crossed what became the Ashford common, and the Boston–Hartford Turnpike later ran a direct line through town between the two cities. That history of being a place people passed through, rather than stopped in, shaped what Ashford became.

In the early 1800s the town had the makings of an industrial future — grain and saw mills, several tanneries, a cotton mill, even a glass factory. But the railroads laid their lines elsewhere and bypassed Ashford, and without rail the mills never grew into a mill town. Instead Ashford stayed rural. Today its economy is largely agricultural, and many residents commute to jobs in other towns while the landscape keeps the open, farmed character it has held for two centuries.

The town is really a collection of small villages — Warrenville, where Route 89 meets U.S. Route 44, and Westford among them — scattered across the hills, with the Mount Hope River running through. Ashford’s most widely known landmark is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, the 300-acre retreat that the actor Paul Newman founded in 1988 for seriously ill children, set on a wooded parcel with its own lake. It draws families to this corner of Connecticut from far beyond it, and free of charge.

For a rural town, Ashford’s road map is simple and its through-traffic concentrated. U.S. Route 44 is the main east-west corridor, running through the center and on toward Hartford, while Route 89 — Westford Road and then Mansfield Road — runs north-south to its junction at Warrenville. Those two highways carry most of the traffic that moves through town, and most Ashford citations along with it. We follow these corridors and the enforcement they see, which is where the violations below usually begin.