Ashleigh and Burwood Of London
Ashleigh and Burwood are one of England's finest manufacturers of scented home products. Their products include incense, candles, scented reeds and accessories too. Ashleigh and Burwood's quality is second to none and as a company they sell goods throughout the world using their "Englishness" as a selling point.
FHSelect stock a wide ranges of Ashleigh & Burwood's products. Recent editions includes wax beads. These allow you to create your own candle, wickes come supplied, all you need is a suitable container to pur the beads into, insert your wick and you're away, your very own scented candle. Naturally FHSelect stock the holders too is you need them.
FHSelect also stock Ashleigh and Burwood's palm oil candles, these are large glass jars filled with two tone 100% palm oil candle wax, farmed from environmentally 
sustainable plantations. Palm oil wax is cleaner and longer burning, and produces less smoke than traditional paraffin wax. Each candle is fragranced with a different delicious scent & has a burn time of up to 85 hours.
Palm wax is a 100% natural wax produced from palm oil, which comes from the fruit of the oil palm tree. The oil palm tree is nature's highest yielding oil crop, and grows in tropical areas of Asia, America and Africa. Palm oil is a major global food source, and is widely used in toiletries and cosmetics.
Palm wax is a 100% natural, environmentally friendly alternative to paraffin wax. Palm wax is from a renewable resource.
Palm wax is also cleaner burning, producing less soot. Palm wax candles burn longer, and have a whiter flame.
Palm wax production is clean and uses no harmful solvents or catalysts. Similar to the production of olive oil, the fruits of the oil palm tree are simply pressed to extract the oil, and then distilled to produce the wax.
Wax Leaves..
Ashleigh and Burwood have increased their range by introducing wax leaves. Those familiar with wax tarts will know the sort of product these are. In fact that are wax tarts in the shape of leaves! Made with 100% palm oil candle wax , farmed from environmentally sustainable plantations. Palm oil wax is cleaner and longer burning, and produces less smoke than traditional paraffin wax. These highly fragranced wax leaves melt in an oil burner / wax tart burner to fill a room with their pleasant aroma. Each unit contains 12 leaves. Each Leaf weighs approx 3.5g
These work in the same way as wax tarts.
Oil Diffusers (Scented Reeds)
We have added an attractive 200ml Oil Diffuser beautifully presented in a full colour printed box.
Now there is no need to burn anything to fragrance your home with the scents you want! Just place the rattan sticks into the diffuser and sit back while the fragrance is absorbed through the stick and evaporates across your room, leaving you with the pleasant aroma you desire!
Whats In A Name?
A rich and colourful history lies behind the two names of Ashleigh and Burwood which can be traced back through several centuries. They originate from Walton-on-Thames in the South of England, and to this day they still dominate local place names there.
The town of Walton-on-Thames is situated right on the banks of the river Thames, a few miles upstream from the centre of London, in the county of Surrey. The name in its present form is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, commissioned after the Normans had defeated the English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, in order to record and assess the value and ownership of all the land and properties in England. However, the area has been inhabited since the Stone Age (1,000,000 years B.C. to 4000 B.C.).
The actual name 'Walton' is said to mean 'farm of the Britons', which therefore suggests that there was a Celtic settlement here before the Romans and the Saxons came. Certainly it has always been an important location, as there was a shallow crossing point of the Thames near Walton, and Julius Caesar may have crossed here with his Roman army in 54 B.C.
Burwood is the earliest recorded of the two names, appearing in a Saxon cartulary of 962. The name itself means 'wood by the fort' which is a reference to the nearby fort on St. George's Hill which dates back to the Iron Age (around 500 B.C.) and the remains of which are still visible today. In ancient times St. George's Hill was used by pilgrims on their way to Windsor Castle, ten miles away, as a landmark. Today it is a luxury private estate, one of the wealthiest areas in the country.
During the Middle Ages the area was gradually occupied by a number of small holdings, with names such as 'Waterman's Burwood' and 'Aldwyn's Burwood'. Eventually, in 1597, Burwood Park was established as a gentleman's private estate. The original grounds of Burwood Park now make up another exclusive luxury private estate, which is home to many modern day gentlemen and their families.
The earliest recorded reference to the name Ashleigh occurs in the Assize Rolls of 1294, after which the name becomes very frequent in the Walton-on-Thames area. The meaning of the name is 'ash wood or clearing', and there are various different spellings which have been recorded, such as Ashley, Asheleye, Asshle etc. Many of the local residents began to derive their family names, as was the tradition at the time, from the place where they lived. Hence in the 1332 tax assessments the names of Gilberto, Roberto and Enrico de Asshlye are found.
Between 1602 and 1607 a large house was built at Ashley which was certainly the most important great house near Walton village. The original building records still exist, and show the cost was £3119 and 795,000 bricks were used. Ashley House stood for 300 years, but in its place today stands the Ashley Park private estate, and the original oak tree lined Grand Drive has become the town's high street.
