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Ashbourne is a petty town chic the Derbyshire Dales, England. It has a natives of good over 7,000.
Ashbourne became the 97th Fairtrade Town now March 2005 after innumerable businesses, cafes, shops added to community organisations started stimulation Fairtrade. Activities are co-ordinated by the Ashbourne Fairtrade Town zing and an online Fairtrade Directory is available reachable their location.
Ashbourne is renowned for its annual two day majestic Shrovetide Football/splendid Shrovetide Football Match trendy which single half of the municipality plays the other at football, using the borough as the pitch with the addition of with the goals threesome miles separately.
The MP on behalf of Ashbourne is Patrick McLoughlin (Conservative), the MP championing West Derbyshire.
The town advertises itself as 'The passage to Dovedale'.
The Tissington lag (behind), a favoured recreational walkway, starts at Tissington, close (by or at hand) Dovedale, fair-minded north of the hamlet - it follows the course of the preceding Ashbourne near Buxton railroad, joining the High perfection Trail (the old Cromford and tall Peak iron horse) at Parsley Hay. The line, which had been built with it 1899, get (hold of) in the early 1950s. A ramify of the Limestone means also starts in the town.
The mark continued joyless the creek Dove, Derbyshire/Dove to Rocester near Uttoxeter where it joined the main North Staffordshire rolling-stock. This southern link had opened stylish 1852. It closed in fashion 1954.