a borough and market-town of England, in the hundred of Teignbridge and county of Devon, 192 miles W.S.W. of London, and 18 S.S.W. of Exeter. It stands in a valley surrounded on every side by hills, at a short distance from the river Dart, and consists principally of one long street on the high road between London and Plymouth. The church of St Andrew is a handsome Gothic structure, built in the form of a cross, with a tower ninety feet high. Ashburton has a bank, three chapels, a free grammar-school, with an exhibition and two scholarships at Exeter college, Oxford, and numerous charities. It is the seat of one of the stannary courts; and previous to the Reform Act, it returned two members to parliament, but now only one. Population in 1851, 3432, principally employed in the manufacture of serge, or in the tin and copper-mines and slate-quarries in the vicinity. This was the birthplace of the celebrated lawyer Dunning, who was created Baron Ashburton, and of William Gifford, the original editor of the Quarterly Review.