Great photo of Westabrook on the latest edition of "Around Ashburton". Good memories of sledding down Terrace and almost through the hedge on to the road.

I was born in Ashburton and spent the first 21 years of my life there until I married a girl from Stoke-on-Trent. In 1973 we moved to Canada but in my heart Ashburton is still my home town.

Past Portreeves. Anyone out there with information about ancestors who were former Portreeves - love to hear from you. Contact via Town Clerk townclerk@ashburton.org

Gulwell - near Peartree & old farmhouse demolished for Dual Carriageway. (message for Lynday Gulwell) Daintyland - photo wanted (message for Elain Riley) - contact me via town clerk townclerk@ashburton.org

Lived in Ashburton from the age of 6months to 14 years. Lived at Beverley Gardens and East Street.left in 1980 but get to visit a couple of times a year and always look forward to it

I am proud to say that my family have lived in Ashburton for six generations and my father Ernest Smerdon was born in North Street. I have many happy memories of growing up in the town and hope that my grandchildren Milly 3 and Lucas 2 grow up to enjoy the beauty of Ashburton

My Great Grandfathers all named John Ireland came from Ashburton. One of my ancesters was John Ireland The Dean of Westminster Abbey. He held the crowns for George 1V and Edward 1V at their coronations. He is buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Dean John Ireland was educated at Ashburton Grammar School under Revd Thomas Smerden, and later at Oxford. He aquired a house in Ashburton for the masters of the school. Also, pupils of the school at the same time was Wills the famous explorer in Australia and William Gifford who became the editor of the famous Quarterly magazine, who is buried with John Ireland in the Abbey. There still exists a Scholarship at Oxford uni named after John Ireland. If anyone can offer any further information I would be very happy to receive it.

I am from an old devon family, mainly the Buckfastleigh branch, but my paternal grandmother was the daughter of Robert Palk Mogridge, who was a surgeon. His family once owned land in Ashburton, so I would be glad to hear from anybody with more information. The surnames Mudge and Bovey also crop up in our history. Please contact me at roger.46tc@virgin.net if you can help!

Ashburton is a place of later in life memories as my parents and sister moved there while I worked in London, so while I did not grow up there I loved to visit and be able to ramble on the moors. My mother is a Devonian and still lives in Ashburton on Bowling Green, she is the ripe young age of 103.

Ashburton - always close to my heart. I spent many a holiday here in the 1960's and 1970's as a child, from London, and went back in the late 1980's when I was studying and living in Cardiff - the family had moved to South East Essex by then, although at the time, my parents had the opportunity to buy a house in Ladwell Square, but we missed out - my huge regret. I moved to Bristol with my work, but my aim is to retire to Ashburton, should the opportunity arise. I have made the first step by marrying a Devonshire lass eight years ago!