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  • We visit Madonna and Guy Ritchie at Ashcombe, their verdant estate (complete with a Celtic burial ground) in Wiltshire, England.

    Architecture & Design 2007

  • She looks a little like Faye Dunaway, I think, in this new -- there's a great spread in "Vogue," showing her in her new country estate in England, Ashcombe.

    CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2005 2005

  • HAMMER: But she's not watching because there's no TV at Ashcombe.

    CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2005 2005

  • I saw the Bristol Channel beneath me as I broke from the clouds, but, having still some petrol in my tank, I got twenty miles inland before I found myself stranded in a field half a mile from the village of Ashcombe.

    The Horror of the Heights Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1992

  • Elizabeth, he says, these de Wichehalses had overflowed all over the country; we find them at Exeter, Chudleigh, Ashcombe, and Powderham.

    Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

  • She keeps a school now at Ashcombe, and is accustomed to housekeeping.

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Ashcombe to transact some business for the squire.

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Ashcombe; a small town close to another property of Lord Cumnor's, in the same county.

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Oh, that she had been in England when the surveyors of the railway between Ashcombe and Hamley had altered their line; she would have entreated, implored, compelled her trustees not to have sold that piece of ground for any sum of money whatever.

    A Dark Night's Work Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • During much of this time Mr. Preston had been at Ashcombe; for Lord

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

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