Asheridge (recorded Esserugge in the 13th century) is a small village in the parish of Chartridge, in Buckinghamshire, England.

[citation needed] Another suggestion is that the name derives from the Old English æsc and hrycg, and meant ‘long hill covered with ash trees.’[1] Asheridge Farmhouse is of 16th-century origin.

A school and congregational church were established there during the latter part of the 19th century and records show they were still in existence in 1891.

The Blue Ball public house which was at the centre of the settlement at that time is still in business today.

[3] Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, Labour Minister responsible for the establishment of the National Health Service and his wife Jennie Lee, also a Minister in the same Labour Government and a key figure in the creation of the Open University, came to live at Asheridge Farm in 1954.