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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ash like this:
ASH, a hamlet in South Tawton parish, Devon; 4½ miles ESE of Okehampton. Ash House in the vicinity, now a ruin, was a seat of the Drakes, and the birthplace, in 1650, of the mother of the Duke of Marlborough.
Ash is now part of WEST DEVON District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST DEVON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ash itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ash, in West Devon and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24682
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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