Ashburton is a small town on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

It was formerly important as a stannary town (a centre for the administration of tin-mining), and remains the largest town within the National Park.

Ashburton Carnival is one of the oldest, possibly the oldest, surviving in Devon. Written records date it back to 1891, but it is believed to have been started in the mid 1880s to raise funds for a new hospital.