Ashburton

Last updated March 11, 2019

Ashburton may refer to:

Australia

Ashburton, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
- Ashburton railway station, Melbourne
Shire of Ashburton, a shire in Western Australia
- Electoral district of Ashburton, a former state electorate in Western Australia
Ashburton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1901 and again from 1989 to 1996.
Ashburton River (Western Australia), river in the Pilbara

Ashburton is an affluent suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km (7.5 mi) southeast of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Boroondara. At the 2016 census, Ashburton had a population of 7,751.

Ashburton Railway Station is located on the Alamein line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ashburton, opening as Norwood on 30 May 1890, and was renamed Ashburton on 12 December 1890. It was part of the first section of the Outer Circle line.

The Shire of Ashburton is one of the four local government areas in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, covering an area of 105,647 square kilometres (40,791 sq mi). It is named after the Ashburton River.

New Zealand

Ashburton, New Zealand, a town in Canterbury
- Ashburton Aerodrome, a small airport serving Ashburton
- Ashburton County, was one of the counties of New Zealand
- Ashburton (New Zealand electorate), a former electorate in New Zealand
Ashburton was a New Zealand electorate, first created in 1881 and centred on the South Island town of Ashburton.
Ashburton River (New Zealand), river in the South Island

Ashburton or Hakatere (Māori) is a large town in the Canterbury Region, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The town is the seat of the Ashburton District, a territorial authority encompassing the town and a number of small settlements within its surrounding rural area, roughly coterminous with the subregion of Mid Canterbury. It is 85 kilometres (53 mi) south west of Christchurch and is sometimes regarded as a satellite town of Christchurch.

Ashburton Aerodrome is a small airport 2 NM to the east of Ashburton township on the east coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Newmans Air operated a Christchurch to Queenstown service via Ashburton in the 1980s which allowed skiers to connect to the nearby skifield of Mt. Hutt. Currently there are no scheduled services operating to Ashburton.

Ashburton County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island.

South Africa

Ashburton, KwaZulu-Natal, a town in South Africa

United Kingdom

Ashburton, Devon, a town in England
- Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency), a former UK Parliamentary constituency
- Ashburton railway station
Ashburton, London, an area in the London Borough of Croydon, England
- Ashburton (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Croydon, England
- Ashburton Grove, the location of the Emirates Stadium, home of London's Arsenal Football Club
- Ashburton Learning Village, in Croydon

Ashburton is a small 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.

Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for one Parliament in 1298 and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.

Ashburton is a small neighbourhood in the London Borough of Croydon neighbouring South Norwood, Shirley, Addiscombe and Woodside. The area is mostly home to residential houses and flats. Most in the area would describe themselves as living in Shirley or Addiscombe.

United States

Ashburton, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood

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Addiscombe West is a ward in the London Borough of Croydon, covering much of the Addiscombe and East Croydon areas of London in the United Kingdom. It extends from East Croydon railway station towards Woodside Green but does not actually cover the retail centre of Addiscombe, which was in the neighbouring Ashburton ward, the Western half of which is a key component of the new Addiscombe East (ward).

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