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Ashton
The Lion and Lamb public house
Ashton Location within Cornwall
Civil parish	Breage
Unitary authority	Cornwall
Ceremonial county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western

List of places UK England Cornwall 50°06′32″N 5°21′14″W / 50.109°N 5.354°W / 50.109; -5.354

Ashton (Cornish: Trevonnen) is a village in the civil parish of Breage, west Cornwall, England, UK at OS grid ref SW604286. It is on the A394 Penzance – Helston road one mile north-east of Praa Sands.^[1]

A Mission Church designed by James Piers St Aubyn was dedicated by George Wilkinson (Bishop of Truro) on 11 March 1884. Costing between £600 and £700, it is built in the Gothic early-English style on a site donated by the Duke of Leeds.^[2] Ashton has a pub called the Lion and Lamb and in the past had a football team.

Ashton is also the name of places in the parishes of Poundstock, St Dominick and St Winnow. The meaning of Ashton is "ash-tree farm".^[3]

References

^ OS Explorer. Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9 780319 243046.
^ "Opening Of A Mission-Church At Ashton, Breage". The Cornishman. No. 296. 13 March 1884. p. 8.
^ Weatherhill, Craig (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, County Mayo: Evertype. p. 19. ISBN 9781904808220.

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