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. It was formerly important as a stannary town, and remains the largest town within the national park, with a population of around 3,800, increasing to 4,170 in 2011. Ashburton has five pubs within the centre of town and five restaurants/cafés. The town is also part of the... Show more electoral ward named Ashburton and Buckfastleigh, the population of which at the 2011 census was 7,718.
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