Ashmore Green is first mentioned in a deed in 1549 from Jack O'Newbury to his son Henry.[5] It is believed the Parliamentary Army stayed in fields near Ashmore Green during the Second Battle of Newbury in 1644.[6] Ashmore Green was first noted on a map in 1761 spelled "Ashmoor Green". The area was largely moorland and heath until it began to be populated in the 1800s.[7] In 1886, a baptistchapel was built in the centre of Ashmore Green, on Stoney Lane. It closed in the 1960s.[7] In 1894, Ashmore Green became part of the Cold Ash civil parish.[8] The population of the Ashmore Green and Cold Ash area nearly doubled between 1900 and 1939, with a major expansion after World War II.[5] The local pub, The Sun in the Wood, built around 1900, closed in 2018.[1]