Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ASHE, or Ash

ASHE, or Ash, a hamlet in Musbury parish, Devon; 2½ miles SW of Axminster. An old mansion here, now a farmhouse, was the birthplace, in 1650, of John Churchill, the famous Duke of Marlborough.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Musbury CP/AP       Devon AncC
Place names: ASH     |     ASHE     |     ASHE OR ASH
Place: Ashe

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