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'We're not stopping here': Ashdown Travel targets further retail expansion after choosing Knutsford for its fourth branch

Agents
Dea Jusufi
26 January 2026

Ashdown Travel's retail lead has told TTG the agency's expansion plans are far from over after it opened its fourth shop last week.

Ashdown Travel launch event in Knutsford
(Credit: Tricia Lester)

The launch was an 'amazing' success, according to retail lead Tricia Lester (Credit: Tricia Lester)

Less than a year ago, Ashdown was a single-branch agency in Surrey's Oxted. However, last July, it took on two former Baldwins Travel teams in neighbouring Kent under ex-Baldwins marketing and commercial manager Tricia Lester.

And last week, the Ashdown made a splash in Cheshire after the group's Eden Luxury Travel operation in Knutsford – some 200 miles away from Ashdown's three other shops – was rebranded as Ashdown Travel.