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  Stanhope estate in Ashford was built as a 'London overspill' estate in the sixties, and almost from the beginning it got itself a terrible reputation for antisocial behaviour problems. I lived there for a while, and it was so bad that grown men were frightened to cross the middle of the estate for fear of being mugged or worse and would either walk around the periphery or get a taxi ! I can't honestly say that I ever had any problems while I lived there, but the local Ashfordians looked down on the Stanhope residents in general. It came as quite a shock to Ashford's system, what used to be a small market town 'invaded' by Londoners with a vastly different attitude to that of the locals. Could be quite interesting in Canterbury, but I won't be going to check it out...

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