Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ashburton. You may be able to find further references to Ashburton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ashburton	parish and town with railway station	Bartholomew
Ashburton (or Mid) Division	parlimentary division	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Ashburton within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Buckland in the Moor	0	2
Woodland	0	2
Bickington	0	2
Newbridge	0	2
Ilsington	0	2
Landscove	0	2
Leusdon	0	2
Staverton	0	2
Buckfastleigh	0	2
Holne	0	2
Haytor	0	2
Torbryan	0	2
West Ogwell	0	2
Broadhempston	0	3
Widecombe in the Moor	0	4
Denbury	0	2
East Ogwell	0	3
Highweek	0	2
Dean Prior	0	2
Ipplepen	0	2