Ashburton
Ashburton is a town on the south-southeastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, adjacent to the A38. The town is 20 miles northeast of Plymouth and 17 miles southwest of Exeter.Photo: Mike Crowe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,350 residents
- Description: town in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ashburton, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ashburton Town Hall and Sands School.
Ashburton Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Paul Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashburton Town Hall is a municipal building in the North Street, Ashburton, Devon, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Ashburton Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Pridhamsleigh Cavern
Cave
Photo: Nick Chipchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pridhamsleigh Cavern is a cave on the outskirts of Ashburton, Devon, England. It is approximately 1.1 kilometres in length with a total depth of just over 50 metres including Prid II.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buckfastleigh and Buckfast.
Buckfastleigh
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district, in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park.
Buckfast
Village
Photo: Gwyn Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buckfast is a small village near Buckfastleigh in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, on the bank of the River Dart. It is the home of Buckfast Abbey, an active Benedictine monastery, which gave its name to Buckfast Tonic Wine, originally made there, and to the Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey.
Ashburton
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Teignbridge District, Dartmoor, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.5156° or 50° 30′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.7563° or 3° 45′ 23″ westPopulation
3,350Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ABUOpen location code
9C2RG68V+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 28375330OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Ashburton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ashburton”
- Basque: “Ashburton (Devon)”
- Basque: “Ashburton”
- Bengali: “অ্যাশ বার্টন”
- Cebuano: “Ashburton”
- Chinese: “Ashburton”
- Chinese: “艾殊布頓”
- Chinese: “阿什伯頓”
- Chinese: “阿什伯顿”
- Croatian: “Ashburton, Devon”
- Croatian: “Ashburton”
- Czech: “Ashburton”
- Dutch: “Ashburton”
- French: “Ashburton”
- German: “Ashburton”
- Gujarati: “એશબર્ટન”
- Hebrew: “אשבורטון (אנגליה)”
- Irish: “Ashburton, Devon”
- Irish: “Ashburton”
- Italian: “Ashburton”
- Japanese: “アシュバートン (デヴォン)”
- Japanese: “アシュバートン”
- Kannada: “ಆಶ್ಬರ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “애시번턴”
- Ladin: “Ashburton”
- Latin: “Ashburton”
- Lithuanian: “Ašburtonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ashburton (Devon)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashburton i Devon”
- Persian: “اشبرتون”
- Persian: “اشبورتون، دوون”
- Polish: “Ashburton”
- Portuguese: “Ashburton”
- Romanian: “Ashburton, devon”
- Romanian: “Ashburton, Devon”
- Russian: “Ашбертон”
- Scots: “Ashburton”
- Slovak: “Ashburton”
- South Azerbaijani: “اشبورتون، دوون”
- Spanish: “Ashburton”
- Swedish: “Ashburton, Devon”
- Swedish: “Ashburton”
- Tamil: “அஷ்புர்ட்டன்”
- Telugu: “ఆష్బర్టన్”
- Turkish: “Ashburton, Devon”
- Ukrainian: “Ашбертон, Девон”
- Ukrainian: “Ашбертон”
- Urdu: “اشبورٹن”
- Urdu: “ایشبرٹن، ڈیون”
- Welsh: “Ashburton, Dyfnaint”
- “Ashburton”
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