ASHBURTON, a borough and market-town of England, in the county of Devon, 192 miles W.S.W. of London, and 18 from 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. The church of St Andrew is a handsome Gothic structure, built in the form of a cross, with a tower 90 feet high. Ashburton was the seat of one of the stannary courts. Before the Reform Act of 1832 it returned two members to parliament; from that time it returned one till 1868, when it was disfranchised. Population in 1871, 2335, principally employed in the manufacture of serge, or in the tin and copper mines and slate quarries in the vicinity.