Martyrs Seat

Martyrs Seat is shown as a memorial on the public map of Ashford. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Martyrs Seat is a 16th-century memorial commemorating local Protestants who were executed during the Marian Persecutions. It is associated with the religious upheavals of the Reformation and marks a site where executions by fire were carried out under Queen Mary I.