Ashburton, a small town in the south of Devonshire, on the borders of Dartmoor, 9½ miles NNW. of Totnes by rail. Till 1868 it returned a member to parliament. Pop. 2891.
Ashburton
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 482
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