Ashborne

In Ashborne, increasing numbers of "tourists" join in the Royal Shrovetide Football Match, a riotous two-day cross between rugby and soccer that has few rules and uses the entire English Midlands town as its playing field.

Honestly, This Part of England Has the World's Biggest Liars Alistair MacDonald 2011

Sir, -- Katherine Pegge, one of the mistresses of Charles II., was the daughter of Thomas Pegge, of Yeldersley, near Ashborne in Derbyshire,

Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 Various

The portrait of Charles Cotton, by Sir Peter Lely, was, at the time (1814) when Linnell took a copy, and (in 1836) when Humphreys took a copy, in the possession of John Berisford, Esq., of Compton House, Ashborne, Derbyshire; and the following extracts of letters will show who at present possesses it: --

Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 Various

Lord George Murray, however, having gained his object, turned sharp off to the left, and after a long march arrived at Ashborne, where the prince, with the other division of the army, had marched direct.

Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden 1867

There are however subterraneous streams of water not exactly produced in this manner, as streams issuing from fissures in the earth, communicating with the craters of old volcanoes; in the Peak of Derbyshire are many hollows, called swallows, where the land floods sink into the earth, and come out at some miles distant, as at Ilam near Ashborne.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

I'm a Derbyshire lass! d3c2d3c2 Had an awesome rehearsal with the Ashborne guys

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William Pegge, of Yeldersley, near Ashborne, 1768; and another by that of the Rev. Nathaniel Pegge, M.A. vicar of Packington, in Leicestershire, 1782.

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ... 1812

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